The mother of the Brooklyn teen left paralyzed in a tragic shooting hopes he may regain his ability to walk, she said Wednesday — as sources revealed the promising basketball player was hit by a bullet meant for a church acquaintance.

Nana Effah Donkor, 16, was outside a Brooklyn bus stop Sunday with a pal after leaving a basketball tournament, when a fellow church goer strolled by and briefly greeted him, he told The Post from his hospital bed.

Moments later, three teens walked up and opened fire, he said.

“Yo, that’s him!” he recalled one of the shooters blurted. “They were talking about the guy next to me and I took off. They weren’t talking about me because I didn’t know them.”

Nana Effah Donkor, 16, was a promising basketball player when a shooting let him paralyzed over the wee

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