The family of a 13-year-old boy shot in the head on a Queens street is praying for a miracle — even though doctors have told them he is unlikely to ever recover.

Sanjay Samuel was in a coma as his heart continued to beat Tuesday, a day after he was shot outside a Dunkin’ Donuts in Cambria Heights, his devastated father told the News in an exclusive interview.

Theophilus Samuel said the gunman’s bullet remains lodged in his son’s brain, which has swelled from the wound.

“We asked them if they could do the surgery to remove the bullet,” Samuel said. “They said, ‘No, that could make it worse.’”

Samuel said his son’s condition is dire and that doctors at Cohen Children’s Medical Center are giving the family a grim prognosis.

Samuel works in the linen department in a psychiatric wing at

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