MIAMI -- A South Florida teen shot in the back just 24 hours ago is reliving the event she calls a "horrifying experience."

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The incident happened outside a video store in little Havana Monday afternoon and police said they believe the drive-by shooting may have been gang-related.

According to police, Lourdes Bustos was critically injured in a drive-by shooting while standing in front of King Variety Video Store.

Bustos, 19, told NBC 6's Tom Llamas that she was a victim of gang violence and said she realizes just how lucky she is to be alive.

"I didn't feel it right away," she said. "I told one of my friends to check my back and he told me I was shot."

Bustos described herself as feeling shaky and white moments after realizes she was a victim of a drive-by shooting.

"I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," she said.

"Everybody heard the gunshots and started running," Teddy, a friend of Bustos', said.

According to Bustos, the gunman was part of a gang called the Allapattah Boys. At the time of the shooting, she was hanging out with boys from a gang called the Riverside Boys.

"They have been beefing for a while," Bustos said.

That beef led to the shooting, but police and Bustos both confirm that she was not the intended target.

"That wasn't for me," she said.

Detectives said they only have a vague description of the alleged gunman, who was last seen with a group of four to five men driving a white 2006 or 2007 Chevy Tahoe with a temporary paper tag.

Police said they have detained several members of the Riverside Boys for questioning regarding this incident.

But Bustos' boyfriend said he has warned her several times about gang life.

"Every time I talk to her, she is always with those people," Richard Garcia, Bustos' boyfriend, said. "Every time I tell her to leave, she doesn't listen."

Bustos is hooked up to a pump currently draining blood from the wound.

Surviving the incident will have to be an experience Bustos deals with forever because doctors said they have to leave a piece of the bullet in her back.

Investigators said they are very close to an arrest.

Police describe the two groups as "wannabe gangsters."