Prosecutors have charged a 19-year-old Makiki man with a July 9 freeway shooting that left a 16-year-old boy paralyzed from the chest down.

Joshua K. Gonda, of an Alexander Street address, was charged yesterday with attempted first-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder and two firearm offenses.

He was being held overnight at the main police station cellblock in lieu of $200,000 bail pending his initial appearance today in District Court. Gonda also was being held on an outstanding $500 warrant.

According to a police affidavit filed in District Court, Gonda was identified as the shooter by witnesses on Tuesday. He was arrested Friday at 1 p.m. at his home.

The affidavit said:

Gonda and three others were in a Honda Civic from which six shots were fired at a yellow Mitsubishi Lancer in the west-bound lane of Moanalua Freeway near the Tripler hospital exit.

The driver of the Mitsubishi, a 22-year-old man, was unhurt but had a bullet hole through his hat.

The document said the two people in the Mitsubishi were "hanging out" in the Iwilei Costco parking lot and attracted the attention of another group, who identified the vehicle as belonging to a member of a rival gang. After the Mitsubishi left the parking lot, the second group went looking for the car in three vehicles, the witness told police.

The Mitsubishi was spotted coming out of Kalihi Valley, and the men in the Honda followed it. They pulled alongside, and shots were fired about 1:30 a.m., police said.

The witness said Gonda was seated in the rear passenger seat and "pointed a revolver-type firearm out of the passenger's window and ... fired all six shots at the yellow Lancer."

One of the bullets is lodged in the boy's spine. He is hospitalized in Sacramento, Calif., and paralyzed, police said.

The alleged driver of the Honda, 18-year-old Nicholas Kyle Nichols, was charged Aug. 24 with first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault stemming from separate assaults on May 1 and last Dec. 3 at a Makiki Heights home. Those cases are unrelated to the freeway shooting.

No one else has been charged in the freeway shooting case.