A woman is fighting to recover two months after she was hit by a stray bullet and paralyzed in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Aleyah Fernandez was not the intended target of the shooting.

Fernandez was shot on Dudley Street on Oct. 8 while she was walking with her boyfriend. She says they were outside a restaurant when they heard gunshots.

"I got hit in my spine and I just remember falling to the ground, and everything was dark," Fernandez said.

Her boyfriend called 911 while a bystander put pressure on the wound.

"I just got my life together"

"I'm religious so I remember asking God like, 'please I just got my life together, this shouldn't be the way my life ends,'" Fernandez said. "A year before this happened, I was homeless, I was dealing with homelessness, and it was really har

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