A Birmingham boy shot in the head left the hospital Friday afternoon after more than 100 days at Children’s of Alabama.

Family and friends gathered in the hospital lobby as 15-year-old Christian Savage prepared for his long-awaited exit.

“It’s been a day that I’ve been praying for a long time,’’ said Christian’s mother, Patrice Leonard.

“When I did my first interview, I declared because of my trust in God that my son would not die, that he would live and that he would walk out or roll out this building,’’ she said. “He can do both, and that’s what he’s doing now.”

Christian, a point guard with the Woodlawn High School basketball team, was shot in the head June 29 while playing video games in the second-floor bedroom of the family’s apartment at The Rev. Dr. Morrell Todd Homes in Birmingham’s Kingston area.

Birmingham police detectives told her the suspects were targeting a neighbor when they opened fire. One of the bullets bore through Christian’s window and television before striking him in the right side of his face.

Leonard said the bullet traveled from the right side of his face to the left side and lodged near his brain. Christian is now blind in one eye and has a brain injury.

“Certain things he doesn’t remember and certain things he does remember, and it comes back to him more and more,’’ she said. “He sees faces and lights up because he knows who they are. He might not remember their names, but he knows who they are.”

Christian can stand up and walk with the use of a cane.

Birmingham police charged Omar Smith and Martez Jefferson, both 19, with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling.

Leonard, who is due to deliver her fifth child on Wednesday, has been with Christian day and night since the shooting. Somehow, though, she made time to make “thank you” gift bags for those who attended Christian’s hospital release.

The bag included a bookmark with a picture of Christian when he was first injured and one of him now standing up. The Bible quote from James 1:17 is on the bookmark: “Every good and perfect gift is from God.’’

“The me, the hardest part was when we first got here, but since I just trusted God, it’s been breezy,’’ Leonard said.

Christian will be home bound for a while and is undergoing rehabilitation. He hopes to soon return to school.

The family has since moved away from the apartment where Christian got shot. A GoFundMe for the family has raised more than $8,000.

“I just feel like his future’s going to be bright,’’ Leonard said. “I don’t know which direction God’s got us going but whatever direction he’s got us going, we’re going to take it.”