On Tuesday night, an 8-year-old was shot in the shoulder by a gunman on a bike in the Bronx. Police have now arrested 15-year-old Eduardo Rodriguez for shooting second grader Armando Bigo; Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Rodriguez had been trying to shoot a teen from a rival gang when he accidentally hit Armando. “We are so happy to hear they got someone, but it’s sad that it’s a teenager. It’s just a child,” Armando's mom Ely Flores told the Daily News.

“How do all these kids have guns on the streets? It's hard to believe a little teenager could get a gun,” she added. Police believe the shooting stemmed from a long-running dispute between two local crews that started with a death in a car accident last year. Rodriguez has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Armando had asked his mother to buy him some chips just before 8 p.m. at the Papa Yala’s Deli on Randall Ave. near St. Lawrence Ave. in Soundview on Tuesday. As you can see in the surveillance video of the incident above, Armando barely flinched when he was hit, later noting: “I felt this pain. I didn’t know what it was. It felt bad. It felt real bad.”

Armando, a second-grader at PS 170 in the Bronx, was most concerned about his mother, who was standing next to him: “I was scared. I ran to my mom. My mom was crying. I didn’t like seeing my mom cry. I don’t remember much else.” Store manager Mahmood Abdulrub told the Daily News that he sat Armando on a milk crate to try to stop the bleeding: "He was so polite. He looked up at me with his big googly eyes and said, 'Thank you, sir.'" Armando also apologized for spilling blood on the shop's floor: "He kept telling me he had to spit up blood," Abdulrub said. "He was worried about spitting blood on my floor. I kept telling him not to worry about it....It was crazy. This little boy had just been shot and he still remembered his manners."

Armando was treated for a punctured lung, a fractured rib and an injured spinal cord; he has fluid in his lungs because of the bullet. Doctors say the bullet is still lodged below a bone in his neck, next to a major artery. They are hoping it will move naturally to a place where it will be safer to extricate. Meanwhile, Armando continues to recover slowly: “He’s doing okay,” said his mom. “He walked yesterday, but he was in so much pain, and they gave him morphine. They wanted to see if the bullet moved down.”

She hopes they'll release him in a few days, but added that he's scared to go home. “I just hope the violence stops. I don't know what it will take to get these guns off the street,” Flores said. “It might take a miracle.”