Six-year-old Adrian Salazar was lying on the floor of his grandma’s house playing with his Spiderman toys when a bullet ripped through his body.

The bullet sliced through the boy’s ribcage, traveling through his torso and lodged in the other side of his ribs, narrowly missing his heart and other vital organs.

His mother threw her body on top of the boy at the sound of gunfire, but he had already been shot, his grandmother said.

Adrian stood up and ran toward his grandmother, Juanita Salazar, with his arms outstretched and cried out for her before falling at her feet. That’s when Salazar noticed the blood.

“It sounded like a war — that’s what it sounded like here,” Salazar said of the Nov. 22 shooting at her home in the Clayton neighborhood.

That night, Adrian became the youngest known victim of gun violence during the past two years in Denver, where an increasing number of teens and children are dying in gun homicides, according to Denver Police Department data.

The boy was whisked to the hospital, where he underwent five hours of surgery to extract the bullet. He remained hospitalized through Sunday, when he was released just in time for his seventh birthday this week.

“This is the season of miracles, and he’s a miracle,” Salazar said.

Denver police have not made an arrest in Adrian’s case but believe multiple suspects are involved, police spokeswoman Christine Downs said. She said investigators didn’t know whether the shooting was gang-related or what may have motivated the attack.

“We’re still investigating — very actively investigating — and trying to identify suspects,” Downs said.

The doctors told Adrian’s family that it will take at least eight months before Adrian can return to any semblance of a normal life for a little boy. He sleeps a lot, his grandma said, and is still very weak.

Bullet holes remained in Salazar’s home Tuesday night. Some of the bullets blasted through five of the home’s interior walls.

Salazar and her husband have lived in their unit near the corner of Bruce Randolph Avenue and Colorado Boulevard for six years. For the first time, she doesn’t feel safe there. She doesn’t know why her home was targeted, she said. She’s trying to work with the Denver Housing Authority to move to a new place.

“The hardest thing is I couldn’t protect him,” the grandmother said, tears in her eyes. “I can’t get that vision of him out of my mind.”