A 12-year-old girl and her 40-year-old mother were among six people wounded in a brazen shooting inside a Bronx convenience store after the parent was used as a human shield by the “cowardly” intended targets Monday afternoon, according to police officials. 

The mom was shot in the stomach when two gunmen opened fire on their rivals outside G&W Grocery on White Plains Road near East 211th Street around 4:50 p.m. in Gunhill, Interim Chief of Department John Chell said during a press briefing at the scene. 

“Some members of this group ran into the store and ran to the counter and were being fired upon, with one of the intended targets — who was not hit — grabbed a mother…as a shield, and she was shot one time in the stomach,” Chell said.

“If you can imagine mom and daughter up against the counter and the two intended targets come in and bump into them and turn the mother around as they are being shot at,” Chell added. 

The young girl was shot in the leg, while the coward who used her mother as a shield was not injured. 

A witness leaving a nearby dollar store told NBC 4 she heard about a dozen gunshots and then ran for cover. 

“I saw the girl who was shot,” she said. 

“They took her out on the stretcher. All her family came and they were distraught.”

Four men, ranging in age from 18 to 21, were also left with gunshot wounds to the arms and leg, Chell told reporters. 

The NYPD chief railed against the “heartless” shooting and said the motive is unknown. 

“[It’s] a brazen and heartless attack on innocent New Yorkers and cowardly intended victims who used a mother as a shield,” he said.

Sources told The Post all the victims were taken to area hospitals in stable condition. 

Both shooters fled and have yet to be caught. 

The NYPD described one of the gunmen as wearing a black Nike sweatsuit, while the other was seen in a gray hoodie. 

Detectives are probing if they posted on social media moments before the senseless violence, sources told The Post.