Montreal-area woman learning how to walk after being hit by stray bullet [Video]

At 24-years-old, Angelique Croteau is learning how to walk again.

She’s unsteady, leaning on her father’s arm on one side and on a cane on the other.

Just over a month ago, she was lying in her bed in Repentigny, scrolling on her phone when she heard a loud crack and felt a searing pain in her pelvis.

“I threw myself on the ground and when I rolled over I saw the blood on my bed,” she told CTV News.

Croteau had been hit by a stray bullet. It led to weeks in the hospital, a surgery and now a recovery where she says she’s completely lost her independence.

“It changed my life in an instant,” she said.

According to police, early findings show at least one bullet travelled from a lower floor apartment, through at least two floors and into Croteau’s bedroom. Marcel Potvin was arrested on weapons charges and was released on Nov. 15 on the condition he attend rehab for substance abuse and …