A 17-year-old boy was shot and struck by a car for trying to help a woman bleeding to death in a Louisiana street, authorities said.

Daniel Wesley said he sprang into action while driving home from the Mall of Louisiana when he spotted April Peck — a 30-year-old mother of two — shot and tossed from a car at a Baton Rouge intersection Sunday. The high school senior, whose father was a paramedic, was trying to stop Peck’s bleeding when Peck’s boyfriend, Terrell Walker, 48, returned and crashed into Peck and other bystanders helping the woman.

“He gets out and he yells, ‘If you’re helping her, you are going to die, too,’ and he shot me in the butt and then he ran after everybody else,” Wesley told WAFB. “On his way back to the car, he shot me again in the arm and then my feet were hanging off of the curb and whenever he pulled away, he hit my legs and broke my femur in half.”

Wesley lay still after the violent encounter, and faked being dead until Walker fled the scene.

“I was thinking, ‘I am not going to die like he said, that I am not going to die,’” Wesley said. “It was a challenge.”

Emergency workers soon arrived and rushed the teen and Peck — who had obtained a restraining order just two weeks earlier against Walker, the father of her two young children — to the same hospital, but the woman could not be saved.

Hours later, Walker was killed in a gunfight with sheriff’s deputies.

Walker, a convicted felon who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1992, had a tumultuous relationship with Peck, according to the Advocate. Relatives told the newspaper that Walker was possessive and jealous, frequently making accusations that she was “cheating on him” despite that being untrue, her sister Dannlleshia Peck said.

Walker’s cousin, meanwhile, visited Wesley in the hospital on Wednesday and apologized to the teen, whose dream to enlist in the Army and follow in his father’s footsteps may now be dashed due to his injuries.

“I told her, ‘Don’t be sorry. You couldn’t change it. I couldn’t change it. It happened. It’s already in the past. I’m going to be fine. It’s already in the past,’” he told WAFB.

Wesley took his first steps Wednesday.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and first lady Donna Edwards have also visited Wesley, even getting the teen a “crate of root beer” after asking him if there was anything he needed at the hospital.

“He asked, ‘Is there anything you need?’ I was like, ‘Can you get me a vending machine with a root beer because none of the vending machines here have root beer’ and they are like, ‘We will make it happen’ and then, like two minutes later, I have a crate of root beer,” Wesley told WAFB.

Wesley, whose father is a retired EMS supervisor, said he doesn’t consider himself a hero, particularly since he was trained to react in such situations.

“My dad was a paramedic and a supervisor,” he said. “I was trained to do it. So, even though I was just trying to be a good Samaritan and do it, I felt like I kind of needed to do it.”

But Wesley’s inherent good spirit may negatively affect his future.

“I wanted to go into the Army and be a medic in the Army, but now, I have screws in both hands, my elbow and a metal rod in my knee, so that is probably out of the picture,” Wesley said.

A GoFundMe page established by Wesley’s cousin to offset his medical expenses has exceeded $40,000. Wesley has “months of rehabilitation and therapy” ahead of him, according to the website.

“Daniel is an extraordinary young man, with a heart of gold and a strong faith in God,” the site reads. “Daniel … is loved by everyone who is blessed to know him.”