A 1-year-old Brook­lyn boy was killed by a bul­let that had his fa­ther's name on it, po­lice sources said.

Ba­by An­tiq was nes­tled in his stroller last night, just inch­es from his par­ents, when the shot pierced his head just a block from the fam­i­ly's Riverdale Ave. home, cops and wit­ness­es said.

Both griev­ing par­ents hail from Trinidad and To­ba­go. The ba­by's great-un­cle, Chris Dob­son, said the boy's par­ents were cel­e­brat­ing his first birth­day. Last night, how­ev­er, they were hun­kered down in their home.

The fa­ther, who has a record of more than 20 ar­rests, was in the gun­man's crosshairs, Dob­son said. Law en­force­ment sources al­so said the child's fa­ther was the in­tend­ed tar­get. De­tec­tives be­lieve the shoot­ing was pay­back for an ear­li­er dis­pute, ac­cord­ing to sources.

The fa­ther was un­harmed but dis­traught af­ter the bul­lets start­ed fly­ing in Brownsville at 7:20 p.m.

"He was scream­ing 'My ba­by got shot.' He was go­ing crazy," said Gi­na Gam­boa, 22, who saw the dad sec­onds af­ter An­tiq was mor­tal­ly wound­ed. "The ba­by was breath­ing, but his eyes were closed. It's crazy. They just will start shoot­ing."

At least four shots rang out. The tot was the on­ly per­son hit.

Ba­by An­tiq was rushed to Brook­dale Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal with a bul­let hole in the left side of his head, cops said.

He died at the hos­pi­tal short­ly be­fore 9 p.m.

"He just start­ed walk­ing. He was vi­brant. He was full of life," Dob­son said. "I can't be­lieve it."

"They shot at him and end­ed up shoot­ing the ba­by."

An­oth­er source said the dad dashed away from the stroller to draw the gun­fire from his son.

Bish­op Willie Bil­lips, a lo­cal an­ti-vi­o­lence ac­tivist, was with the par­ents as they made the gut-wrench­ing of­fi­cial iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of their life­less child.

"I'm fu­ri­ous about what I've just seen. I'm out­raged," Bil­lips said. "A 1-year-old ba­by ly­ing on the bed? It's hor­ri­ble."

There was lit­tle so­lace he could of­fer to the fam­i­ly, Bil­lips added.

"What do you say? It brought me to tears. To see young par­ents suf­fer – for what?"

No ar­rests had been made as of late last night, po­lice said.

But a source in the Brownsville com­mu­ni­ty said the shoot­er's street name has been giv­en to cops.

"The fam­i­ly is shocked and dev­as­tat­ed," Coun­cil­man Charles Bar­ron said af­ter com­fort­ing the bereft cou­ple. "The child didn't even get a chance to start his life, and now it's over."

A woman iden­ti­fy­ing her­self as An­tiq's god­moth­er left the hos­pi­tal shak­en af­ter the boy died.

"I saw him, I saw him in there, oh my good­ness, oh my God, oh my Lord," she wailed. "He was just a ba­by." (via NY Dai­ly News )