A suspect has been charged in the weekend shooting that left a 13-year-old Jefferson County boy critically wounded.

Mondricus Edmond Cooks, 35, of Birmingham, is charged with five counts of attempted murder. HE is also charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Cooks is being held in the Jefferson County Jail on bonds totaling $280,000.

The shooting happened about 11 p.m. Saturday near the 500 block of B Y Williams Sr. Dr. in Midfield.

Corey Young, a student at Fultondale Elementary School, had spent an evening with his parents and siblings. They had gone to Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in Homewood and then McDonald’s and were on their way home when the unthinkable happened.

“We were just having family bonding time because they go back to school Monday,’’ said Corey’s mother, Shalanda Lawrence.

Lawrence said they were crossing over the railroad tracks near Midfield High School when someone they know – now identified as Cooks – drove up alongside them and opened fire.

“I saw a gunshot, but I thought he was just shooting into the air,’’ Lawrence said. “I didn’t think he shot into the car until my son was like, ‘Ma, I’ve been shot.’’’

“Everybody in the car was screaming and hollering and I was like, ‘No baby, you’re not shot’,’’ Lawrence said. “He said, ‘Ma, I’ve have been shot. My side, it’s hurting.’’’

Corey then tried to crawl into the front seat, collapsing between his parents.

The family stopped the car at the Circle K and Lawrence was yelling for someone to call 911. Midfield police received the call, and it was then transferred to dispatchers at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

“Blood was everywhere,’’ Lawrence said.

They decided to drive Corey to Princeton Baptist Medical Center because it was the closest hospital. Lawrence called 911 on the way and asked that deputies meet them there.

The medical staff at Princeton stabilized Corey and gave him some blood transfusions.

“He lost a pretty big amount of blood due to his liver,’’ she said.

“He didn’t cry through all of this,’’ Lawrence said. “He was talking and stable. He was telling us to calm down, that he was OK.”

Lawrence said Cooks fired three to four shots, but she thinks only one of them entered their vehicle.

Corey was shot in the side and sustained six broken ribs as well as internal damage to his liver and colon.

Once stabilized at Princeton, he was transferred to Children’s of Alabama where he underwent a three-hour surgery to repair the internal damage.

He was initially sedated and intubated, but that breathing tube was removed Sunday afternoon, and he was alert and talking. He also has a colostomy bag because doctors had to remove a portion of his colon, but Lawrence said they hope to be able to reverse the colostomy bag in the future.

Lawrence said there has been an ongoing feud with Cooks for several years.