A 20-year-old St. Paul man was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a shooting that left a young woman in a wheelchair.

Latre Lamont Anderson apologized for his actions before Ramsey County District Judge Richard Kyle handed down his sentence Thursday morning.

“I was going to apologize to the victim, but she ain’t here,” Anderson said.

She wanted to be present, the state prosecutor handling the case told the court, but Diamante Marie Jorge-Salgado couldn’t make it because the taxi she intended to take couldn’t accommodate noncollapsible wheelchairs.

“Mr. Anderson will get out of prison. This victim will not get out of her wheelchair,” the prosecutor told the judge while asking that he abide by the terms of the plea agreement reached in the case.

In exchange for Anderson’s agreement to plead guilty to one count of first-degree assault resulting in great bodily harm, the state dismissed the other charges previously facing him, which included two counts of committing a crime to benefit a gang.

“I’m hit. I’m hit. I’m hit. I can’t move my legs. I can’t move them at all,” Jorge-Salgado cried as a bullet ripped through her back last October, according to statements her boyfriend and other passengers in the vehicle she was riding in that day later gave to police.

The young woman was sitting in the passenger seat of her boyfriend’s car when a car pulled up beside them at the intersection of Western Avenue and Minnehaha Avenue Oct. 22, 2017, according to the criminal complaint in the case.

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

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

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

Despite Anderson’s past gang affiliations, his attorney Connie Iverson told the court Thursday that he had been making strides to get his life on track.

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After handing down his sentence, Kyle wished Anderson luck.

“You’re a smart guy … and you can certainly be a productive member of society (when you get out of prison),” he told him.

Neither Jorge-Salgado nor her relatives could be immediately reached for comment.