Teen gunman busted in stray bullet shooting that left Brooklyn high school hoops player paralyzed

A teen gunman was nabbed in the stray-bullet shooting that left a promising 16-year-old Brooklyn basketball player paralyzed last month, cops said – as his mom said the still-hospitalized victim pledged to walk again.

Alleged shooter Isaiah Greaves, 19, was picked up Dec. 17, weeks after he allegedly shot Nana Donkor in the back while the hoops player waited for a bus at Avenue J and East 16th Street in Midwood on Nov. 30, police said.

Greaves – who cops say was joined by an accomplice – was apparently aiming for another person who Donkor knew and had briefly stopped to greet, the wounded teen told The Post days after the shooting.

The alleged shooter of Donkor was Isaiah Greaves, who was found weeks after striking the promising Brooklyn basketball player with a stray bullet, leaving him paralyzed. Gregory P. Mango

Greaves was charged with attempted murder, felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the shooting, according to the complaint filed against him. The second suspect is still at large, police said.

“Getting [Greaves] is not going to bring my son back,” Donkor’s mom, Danielle Boakye, told The Post by phone Tuesday. “My son is hurt. He got shot. Them catching him is not going to reverse that.”

But she acknowledged that the arrest is “good because [both suspects] must have the punishment of hurting an innocent person.”

“They have to be jailed – the punishment is jail so they will never shoot anyone else,” Boakye said. “They have to face the lesson the government gives them because they know what they did was very wrong. Look at my son!”

The stray bullet left Donkor paralyzed from the waist down, according to court docs.

Nana Donkor, an NYC teen left paralyzed from the waist down by a stray bullet Obtained by the NY Post

And a month later, it’s still too “dangerous” for doctors to remove the round – though Donkor is showing many signs of progress, his mom said.

“It’s amazing. He can transfer himself from his bed to sit in the chair,” Boakye said. “He can lift one of his legs and has feelings in the other one. We thought it wouldn’t happen so fast.”

Doctors initially shared the grim prediction that Donkor – a junior on the Far Rockaway Seahorses basketball team who also excels in his studies – would never walk again.

“Because we have faith it changed that,” Boakye said. “The first day it wasn’t easy.  By the grace of God, we have hope. Everything is showing the boy is going to walk soon!”

“He, himself, has faith,” she added. “If you ask, he’ll tell you, ‘I know I will walk again and it will be soon, too.’”

Greaves was ordered held without bail during his arraignment on Dec. 18 and will reappear in court Jan. 7, the DA’s office said.