A Yonkers, N.Y., woman said Monday her response to being shot in the stomach with an 30-inch-long arrow was to scream.
Denise Delgado-Brown, 51, was in stable condition at a hospital after doctors removed the black arrow with yellow feathers that struck her Sunday afternoon while she was getting out of her car in New York City's Riverdale neighborhood after church, radio station WINS reported.
"I thought that maybe somebody had hit me with a baseball or something," said Delgado-Brown. "I started screaming."
"I thought it was a joke," Olga Rivera, one of two women she was dropping off at nearby nursing home, told the New York Daily News. "She wanted to take it out, but I told her not to."
Police had not made any arrests but said they don't think Delgado-Brown was the shooter's intended target. They said the fiberglass arrow, which struck Delgado-Brown about 2 inches above her navel, had a blunted tip, the type archers use for practice. The steep angle at which it struck her indicates it was descending after being shot in high arc, a source told the Daily News.
"It's a freak thing," a police source told the newspaper.
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Denise Delgado-Brown, 51, was in stable condition at a hospital after doctors removed the black arrow with yellow feathers that struck her Sunday afternoon while she was getting out of her car in New York City's Riverdale neighborhood after church, radio station WINS reported.
"I thought that maybe somebody had hit me with a baseball or something," said Delgado-Brown. "I started screaming."
"I thought it was a joke," Olga Rivera, one of two women she was dropping off at nearby nursing home, told the New York Daily News. "She wanted to take it out, but I told her not to."
Police had not made any arrests but said they don't think Delgado-Brown was the shooter's intended target. They said the fiberglass arrow, which struck Delgado-Brown about 2 inches above her navel, had a blunted tip, the type archers use for practice. The steep angle at which it struck her indicates it was descending after being shot in high arc, a source told the Daily News.
"It's a freak thing," a police source told the newspaper.
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