A third suspect has been charged in the 2022 shooting of a 15-year-old Birmingham boy that left the teen with blindness in one eye and a brain injury.

Derrick Green, 20, is charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, Birmingham police said Wednesday. Injured in the shooting was Christian Savage.

The warrants against Green were issued by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office on Dec. 18. The department’s Crime Reduction Team took Green into custody Tuesday at an east Birmingham home.

The announcement of Green’s arrest came on Christian’s 17th birthday.

“This was such a great birthday gift for us,’’ said Patrice Leonard, Christian’s mother.

Two other suspects were previously charged – 20-year-old Martez Willearl Jefferson, who is awaiting trial on an unrelated capital murder charge, and 20-year-old Omar Smith.

Authorities had long searched for the identity of the third suspect – now identified as Green.

Christian was shot in the head June 29, 2022, 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 community.

Thirteen shell casings were recovered from the crime scene. Witnesses provided police with a suspect vehicle.

The bullet that struck Christian traveled from the right side of his face to the left side and lodged near his brain. Christian left Children’s of Alabama on Oct. 14, 2022. He had been hospitalized for more than 100 days.

Christian now attends Wenonah High School three days a week and attends therapy at Children’s of Alabama on the other two days.

He can even play backyard basketball with his left hand.

“He has overcome so many obstacles in his life,’’ Leonard wrote in a Wednesday Facebook post in honor of Christian’s birthday. “But I know one thing – God’s hands never left him and with them same hands I ask God to continue to guide him, protect him and mold him into the young man he was destined to be.”