The first targets of the California garlic festival gunman say he calmly asked them, “Are you all right?” after gunning them down — but the couple survived by playing dead as a heroic young girl scrambled to save their 3-year-old son.

Wendy Towner and husband Francisco Aguilera are among at least a dozen injured in Sunday’s carnage that left three dead, including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.

They were the first shot by Santino William Legan, 19, after they spotted him climbing over a fence into the Gilroy Garlic Festival, according to a GoFundMe page set up by Towner’s brother, Troy Towner.

“Wendy told the gunman, ‘No, you can’t do that!'” Towner wrote of his sister, who was a vendor at the festival for her business, The Honey Ladies.

“With that comment, all his attention went toward her booth. He opened fire on them, hitting both her and her husband.

“Their 3-year-old son was dragged under the table by a brave 10-year-old girl, that probably saved his life … He wanted to run to Mommy and Daddy.”

As the couple lay wounded, they had an unexpected interaction with the killer — and are convinced their reaction saved their lives, the post said.

“The shooter then approached closer, and said, ‘Are you alright?'” Towner’s brother wrote.

“They both possumed and did not respond, as he probably would have finished the job,” he said, referring to them pretending to be dead.

Legan then turned to the group next to him, shooting dead Stephen Romero, 6, and striking his mom, Barbara Aquirre — who is now in a medically induced coma — in the stomach and hand. Her mother, Barbara Velasquez Aquirre, was also hit in the leg before cops fatally shot Legan.

“Wendy was particularly heartbroken” about the death of the young boy, the posts said.

Towner and Aguilera were both shot in the leg, with the husband also getting hit in the shoulder and femoral artery.

The fundraiser seeks $100,000 to help with medical costs, saying they will remain in a hospital for at least a week and have “a long road ahead in PT, skin grafts and plastic surgery for both.”