A suspect has been charged in a Birmingham shooting that left a 12-year-old boy paralyzed.

Joshua Allen Brown, 18, is charged with attempted murder in the March 22 shooting of Brandon “BJ” Roller, who has since celebrated his 13th birthday.

Charging documents against Brown were made public Tuesday, and Birmingham police later announced the arrest.

Brown, of Center Point, was taken into custody May 22, according to court records made public Tuesday.

He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail at 9:04 a.m. and released at 12:09 p.m. the same day after posting $60,000 bond.

In a Facebook Live video earlier Tuesday, Brandon’s mother, Courtney Chestner,said she’s disappointed that more suspects weren’t arrested and that Brown was already out on bond before police notified her that she’d been arrested.

She said while Brandon remains positive, the shooting stole his childhood and the aftermath has been a struggle for the family.

“This was just traumatizing for us,’’ Chesnter said. “And I relive it every day.”

The shooting happened about 3:15 p.m. that Friday at a small apartment complex in the 1800 block of Carson Road.

Chestner, said he asked her if he could go outside to play that day.

“I told him he could,’’ she said in a previous interview with AL.com. “I’m always telling him no, but for some reason this time I told him he could.”

Chestner was upstairs in her bathroom and her other three sons, all younger than Brandon, were in their room watching television. It was then that Chester heard a commotion.

“I thought maybe one of the younger boys had stuck something in the socket because it was a popping noise, like fireworks,’’ she said.

She went downstairs and saw a boy run into her home. He came in the back door and was running out the front door.

“I turned towards the back door, and that’s when I saw my son laying on the floor,’’ Chestner said. “He said he was shot.”

“I dragged him from the back door to the kitchen because I didn’t know if they were still shooting,’’ she said. “I called 911 and put some towels on his back.”

When Brandon was able to talk to her, he told her some teens approached him and the others and asked if they knew somebody. Brandon told them they didn’t, and they said something to the effect of “that’s good because if y’all did, y’all were going to die today.”

Another boy asked the teens, “Ya’ll straight?” and that’s when gunfire erupted.

Brandon ran and made it just inside his apartment when he was struck. The bullets went through the back door and into his back, his mother said.

Picture of the apartment shown by Chestner on Facebook showed multiple bullet holes inside the family’s apartment. She has since moved.

Chestner said the bullet hit Brandon’s spinal cavity, went through one of the bones, traveled through his right lung and fractured his rib.

“They say there is a zero percent chance of him ever walking again but our faith is so strong that we know that it’s going to take a lot of hard work and dedication,’’ she said. “He is so strong, so strong.”

Though doctors say Brandon, a Smith Middle School seventh grader who played the baritone horn in the school band, will never walk again, the family is praying their faith will yield a different outcome.

Brandon has remained strong and positive since the shooting.

“Don’t be sad, because I’m alive,’’ Brandon said in an earlier phone interview from his bed at Children’s of Alabama. “I made it. I pulled through it. I’m OK.”

A GoFundMe to help the family remains in place. Donations can be made here.

Browns first court is set for June.