Tysha Jones, Victim In Brighton Beach Shooting Killed Just Months After BFF (PHOTOS)

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Tysha Jones and Cheyenne Baez were best friends. They were two East Harlem teenagers who grew up side-by-side and tragically died months apart, both were gunned down by bullets never actually meant for them.

The tragic killing of 16-year-old Tysha Jones in a terrifying Brighton Beach boardwalk shooting Thursday chillingly echoed the death of her close friend Cheyenne Baez, the innocent victim of a drive-by shooting in October.

“All [Tysha] did was talk about Cheyenne. All the time,” her heartbroken mother, Cynthia Jones, said yesterday as she struggled to come to grips with her youngest child’s death. “Now I know how Cheyenne’s mother feels.”

“Tysha had a lot of dreams,” she added, clutching her head with both hands. “She wanted to be a singer, a dancer, she was looking into college, but now it’s all gone.”

Jones was one of hundreds of New York City schoolkids enjoying a day away from the classroom for Brooklyn-Queens Day Thursday.

In the hours before the unknown gunmen opened fire, fatally shooting the Landmark High School sophomore and wounding four men, she was pictured playfully splashing around in the Atlantic Ocean with a pal, beaming with joy.

“I didn’t want her to go to the beach,” she said. “Still, I never thought anything could happen like this.”

The grieving mother said her daughter happily bounded out of the home they shared at about 12:30 p.m. saying, “I love you, mom.”

“I told her I loved her, too,” Jones said slowly, her eyes bloodshot.

“That was the last time I saw her.”

Tysha’s dad, Kevin Wilson, said the killer shattered his family.

“My baby’s not here no more because somebody put a gun in their hand and thought they were in the Wild Wild West,” he said.

A makeshift memorial was set up outside the three-story 131st St. building with candles, a teddy bear and handwritten notes.

At Landmark High School an assembly was held in Jones’ honor and students shared a moment of silence before teachers sent them home early.

“Enough is enough,” Baez said. “I lost my only child to gun violence. Now Tysha is gone. When are the parents going to stand up and clean up the streets? It’s ridiculous.”