Family mourns after two brothers fatally shot outside Bronx Popeye’s: ‘The family needs prayers’ (EXCLUSIVE)

A second victim has died from a gun-toting duo’s wild burst of bullets outside a Bronx Popeye’s — and the two dead men are brothers, their devastated family revealed to the Daily News.

The Friday afternoon spray of bullets that struck four men outside the fast food joint was just the bloody start to a terrifying 15-hour span that saw 12 more people shot.

Medics rushed 24-year-old Jeremiah Smith, 24, to St. Barnabas Hospital but he couldn’t be saved. Compounding his family’s grief, his older brother Devren Smith, 37, shot in the chest, and rushed to the same hospital in critical condition, died there about nine hours later.

“The family needs prayers,” another brother, Daquan Shepard, 32, told the Daily News. “We lost two brothers in one day. Two talented, smart brothers.”

Devren, a gifted musician who liked to rap, was the oldest of seven siblings, while Jeremiah, whose talents lay in poetry and drawing, was the second-youngest.

“it just happened. It’s a shock,” Shepard said. “Nobody expected to lose two of their siblings in one day, especially to something like this.”

Another family member, who didn’t give a name, recalled seeing the two brothers leaving their apartment just before the shooting.

“They were in good spirits,” the relative recalled. “They just said, ‘I’ll be right back.’”

Loved ones and friends placed candles at a memorial outside the fallen siblings’ apartment building, less than a half-mile walk from the scene of the slayings.

A neighbor who gave her name as Dorris described Jeremiah as a kind hard-working young man.

“He was a good kid. He was working. He was getting his life right,” she said. “He was a real respectful kid. He respects his elders. And he was about just surviving because it’s all about surviving out here.”

Two men have been charged with murder for the deadly barrage. Police arrested Salvatore Rivera, 51, at the scene and apprehended Jose Parilla, 32, on Saturday. Both await arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.

“We don’t know any of them,” Shepard said of the suspects.

Video from the scene obtained by The News shows one man opening fire, while a second man, who appears to be armed, stands behind him. It’s unclear from the video in the second man fired off any shots.

The two other victims, age 58 and 36, were struck in the ankle and buttocks and were treated and released.

A Popeye’s worker told The News the shooting was sparked by a fight outside the fast food chicken restaurant.

A wave of gun violence followed across the city, starting with a shooting at 4:22 p.m. Friday a on Astoria Blvd. near 8th St. in Astoria, cops said. A gunman shot a 33-year-old man in his leg, and the victim made it to Elmhurst Hospital on his own, with non life-threatening injuries.

Then, before 5 p.m., a drive-by shooter in a maroon minivan opened fire at a group standing outside the High Moon Smoke Shop on Mermaid Ave. near W. 33rd St. in Coney Island. Four people between 17 and 25 years old were wounded by the bullets, cops said.

At 6:25 p.m. Friday a 20-year-old man was shot in the shoulder on 183rd St. near Jamaica Ave. in Jamaica and at 11:30 p.m., gunmen robbed a shop in Clinton Hill, shooting a 48-year-old worker as they made off with $4,600. Both victims survived.

The bloodshed continued into early Saturday, with a 23-year-old man was shot in his left thigh on 33rd St. near 28th Rd. in Astoria at about 2:32 a.m., and another man walking into Queens Hospital Center in Hillcrest at 4 a.m. with a gunshot wound to his leg.

An hour later, a drive-by shooter in a minivan killed a 27-year-old man as he stood outside a vehicle on White Plains Road in Parkchester, cops said. It wasn’t immediately clear if the victim was the intended target, and his name has not yet been released.