A North Carolina man who was critically injured when a neighbor angry about a ball rolling into his yard allegedly opened fire said the suspect yelled “I don’t even like white people” during the shooting spree.

Jamie White has been released from a hospital and recounted the harrowing incident, in which a bullet pierced his lung and liver as he desperately sought to protect his 6-year-old daughter Kinsley from the gunfire.

“I was worried about my babies,” White told the Gaston Gazette on Monday. “I was already hit. I was losing breath. I was on fire. I honestly didn’t think I was going to make it.”

The dad, who was released from the Carolinas Medical Center on Saturday evening, was struggling with pain Monday as he spoke to the outlet outside his home.

The suspect, Robert Louis Singletary, 24, turned himself in to authorities in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday after two days on the lam.

He allegedly fired at Kinsley and her parents, White and Ashley Hilderbrand, after he became enraged that some kids let their basketball roll onto his property.

“He comes back out the door running, firing at that man and his kids,” White said, referring to another neighbor that the suspect allegedly targeted before turning his gun on the family.

“At that point, I took off. My youngin’ was down the road, too. My little girl and about 10, 12 other kids were down there. They were all stunned,” he told the Gazaette.

He said he told Singletary to stop firing in front of all the children.

“I said, ‘Man, that’s crazy.’ And he said, ‘You white? I don’t even like white people. I’m going to shoot your a–,’” White told the outlet.

He said the assailant dropped his gun, grabbed another and then opened fire at him and his daughter.

“He fires three shots. He hasn’t hit nobody yet. So I turn around and look… My daughter’s right in front of me. I look and see, and he’s pointing straight at my daughter,” White said.

“And I just run towards my daughter… and that’s when he got me,” he said, adding that the round punctured his lungs and liver before going through his belly.

Kinsley was hit by shrapnel, which lodged in her cheek.

White said the gunman pulled the trigger three more times but missed.

He told the paper that medical personnel were waiting for police to secure the scene so cops carried him to an ambulance themselves.

After being released Saturday, Kinsley and his three other children were on hand to greet him at home.

“She’s in very good spirits,” he said about the 6-year-old, who received stitches for her facial injury. “Poor baby, she’s constantly worried about me. She comes and checks on me every 15 minutes.”

Singletary has been charged with four counts of first-degree attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

The suspect, who has a violent history, was arrested twice for attacking someone with a dangerous weapon in the last seven years.

In December, he was arrested for allegedly hitting his girlfriend in the back of her head with a mini-sledgehammer.

“None of this would have happened if the judicial system would have done their job,” White told the Gazette, referring to the suspect’s release on an unsecured bond after the alleged assault.

Singletary also was also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury for an incident on Halloween 2016.

White, a supervisor at a chemical cleaning company, has been out of work since the shooting and is expected to be home for three more weeks to recover.

“It’s still a real open wound,” he told the outlet. “They told me it’s going to be a long, slow road to recovery.”

The Post has reached out to the Gastonia police for comment.