The father of a 24-year-old gunned down in Brooklyn near Prospect Park has spent his life as a youth mentor working to save kids from violence in the streets — but is devastated that he wasn’t able to save his own son.

“You can only imagine. When you can save other kids, but you can’t save your own child,” Eric Manson, the father of Ramel Ingram, told the Daily News.

“How about that? Can you imagine that?”

Manson, who raised Ingram and his brother as a single father, said he made a career mentoring and coaching young kids in the Fort Greene, Brooklyn community, aiming to keep them out of trouble.

“I lost my son to this, something I’ve been trying to prevent,” he said.

Manson said Ramel had recently begun a training program at the Taj Gibson Foundation’s Fort Greene community center to

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