A 19-year-old passenger in a car idling at a stoplight was shot by the driver of another vehicle moments after it pulled up at the light in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood.

“I’m hit. I’m hit. I’m hit. I can’t move my legs. I can’t move them at all,” Diamante Marie Jorge-Salgado cried as a bullet ripped through her back, according to statements her boyfriend and other passengers in the vehicle later gave police following the Oct. 22 shooting.

Ten days later, Jorge-Salgado still can’t feel her legs, according to her brother, Roberto Perez. She remains hospitalized. Her doctors have told her she may never walk again, he said.

“To be honest with you … I don’t even think it’s hit her yet, not 100 percent,” Perez said of how his sister is processing her prognosis. “She’s a fighter, though … We just hope that she pulls through. She has a 9-month old daughter.”

Perez added that his sister also has a large family supporting her.

A 19-year-old St. Paul man was charged in the shooting late last week.

Latre Lamont Anderson faces two counts of committing a crime to benefit a gang, one count of first-degree assault and a fourth count of being involved in a drive-by-shooting, according to the criminal complaint filed against him in Ramsey County District Court.

Jorge-Salgado told police she was sitting in the passenger seat in her boyfriend’s car when a car pulled up beside them at the intersection of Western Avenue and Minnehaha Avenue, according to the complaint.

When she turned her head, she said she saw a man she recognized as the brother of one of her acquaintances driving the vehicle. When she realized he was holding a handgun, she told her boyfriend to drive away, the complaint said.

That’s when she says she heard a “loud boom” and immediately felt intense pressure in her back as she realized she was bleeding, court documents say.

Her boyfriend drove her to the hospital.

Jorge-Salgado later identified Anderson as the shooter in a photo array.

Her boyfriend eventually told officers he recently “had beef” with three of Anderson’s friends during the Rondo Days Parade, the complaint said.

Anderson is a member of the Everybody Killer gang, authorities say. Jorge-Salgado’s boyfriend is affiliated with the Time for Money gang, the complaint said.

Anderson’s next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 20.

His attorney, public defender Bruce Wenger, could not be immediately reached for comment.

Anderson’s criminal record includes misdemeanor convictions for theft and disorderly conduct.

HOW TO HELP

A fundraising account for Diamante Jorge-Salgado has been established at gofundme.com/diamante-jorgesalgado-survivor