The last 13 days have been a nightmare for Sophia Gomez.

"Horrifying. I couldn't, I can't go home, you know what I mean? I can't even go home," said Gomez.

Earlier this month, a car ride with her boyfriend, Eli Mendoza, turned violent at a south Wichita intersection.

"He told me he was going to kill me. And I said for what?," Gomez recalled. She says he told her he wasn't "going back to prison".

Gomez was shot in her chest and arm.

She says Mendoza was upset with her for going to police days before when she says he strangled her and slashed her tires.

After the shooting he ran. He was caught Tuesday night in New Mexico.

"I don't think I'll ever be the same Sophia that I was prior to the shooting," she said.

It was a violent relationship that many victims don't survive. Gomez hopes her second chance at life will also be a lesson to others in abusive relationships.

"You know, there's places here that will really help you," she said. "If you have to take nothing, if it's just yourself. Everything that is in a house, that's materialistic stuff. Your life should be more important."

Mendoza is being held without bond in New Mexico. He'll have to be brought back to Wichita before he's officially charged.