(NYDN.COM) A Newark mom whose 10-year-old son was chased and cornered by armed cops in a terrifying case of mistaken identity says an apology isn’t enough — she wants reform.

Nearly two weeks after Legend Preston’s run-in with a tactical team chasing an armed robbery suspect, his mother, Patisha Solomon remains horrified over what could have happened.

“When I think about my child staring at the end of a gun,” Solomon, 30, told the Daily News.

“One wrong move, and my child wouldn’t be here right now. My son could have tripped.

“He could have reached for a toy. They could have done anything to my son and it could have been his fault.”

Legend was simply retrieving a ball from the street near a garage on Stuyvesant Avenue where he was playing basketball with some other boys when he saw armed cops bearing down on him like his face was on a wanted poster, his mother said.

Legend, according to his family, did what any right-minded, city-raised kid would do under the circumstances — he ran.

“I was scared for my life,” Legend told the News. “I was thinking that they were going to shoot me.”

He was soon surrounded by neighbors and friends who shielded him from the blundering cops.

“This is a child!” they screamed.

“He matches the description,” the cops countered, according to Legend’s mother, who shared her version of events from the Aug. 11 incident in a viral Facebook post that featured video of the boy shaking and crying.

Cops got their man — 20-year-old Casey Joseph Robinson — but not before walking off without an apology to Legend or his mom.

Robinson — who wears dreadlocks and sports facial hair — was captured on the next block. He was charged with armed robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

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