Girl Who Rescued Brother From Gang Crossfire Set to Come Home : Recovery: It’s ‘nothing less than a miracle’ for Cristal Anguiano, her father says.

Ten days ago, Cristal Anguiano was near death--she had a bullet in her heart after walking from her house into the midst of a gun battle between rival gangs.

But today, in what her father called “nothing less than a miracle,” the shy 12-year-old girl is expected to return to her home in South-Central Los Angeles.

“I still can’t believe it, but she’s ready to come home,” Angel Anguiano said at a news conference Tuesday. “I’m so excited that she’s going to be back with me.”

Anguiano’s emotional appearance followed an announcement by Los Angeles Police Department detectives that they had charged three alleged gang members in connection with the Feb. 2 shooting.

Cristal was described by authorities as a hero after she carried her 2-year-old brother, Rafael, to safety even though she had been critically wounded.

Zarricor Glasper, 27, and Tony Davis, 24, were ordered held without bail after they were charged with three counts of attempted murder. Glasper also was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of felony possession of a firearm, police said. Davis also was charged with an additional count of using a firearm.

Lt. Bruce Hagerty said police will seek attempted murder charges against an unidentified 17-year-old boy who was in Glasper’s car at the time of the shooting. The three suspects were arrested last week, prosecutors said. Glasper and Davis made a brief court appearance Monday afternoon but did not enter pleas. They are scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 24.

Police are still looking for the rival gang members in the other car, Hagerty said.

“We had a lot of people who saw what happened that day and (they) wanted to help,” Hagerty said. “The case received lots of media attention because of the tragedy.”

Cristal underwent several surgeries at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center and was in intensive care for six days after the shooting, hospital spokeswoman Julia Richmond said.

On Tuesday, Cristal was listed in good condition and looking forward to returning home, her father said.

“The doctors did wonderful work,” he said. “They were amazing.”

The girl ran outside to buy ice cream from a passing truck when the gun battle between two carloads of rival gang members erupted outside her family’s home on 84th Street.

The fifth-grader had taken only a few steps outside when the errant bullet struck her. She managed to carry her brother to safety and then collapsed in the doorway of the house, telling her parents, “I don’t feel good.”