US woman shot in face by neighbor’s stray arrow
While she was enjoying a doughnut :
US: An 80-year-old American woman who was enjoying a doughnut
at her kitchen table was hit in the face by a stray arrow apparently
shot by a neighbor honing his archery skills, police said on Wednesday.
The woman, great-grandmother Margaret Shofner, calmly pulled the
arrow out of her jaw on Tuesday morning and put it on her table. She did
not require hospitalization and wasn’t sure at first what hit her.
“I pulled (the arrow) out and laid it on the table. That’s when I
realized what it was,” said Shofner, who lives in the state of Missouri
and told her story to a local television network.
“Who would have thought an arrow was going to come into your house
and hit you,” she added.
Her face was swollen and bruised but otherwise she was unharmed.
Police found nearby resident Robert Joiner, 26, still practicing his
bow and arrow shots an hour after the incident.
He was charged with second-degree assault and armed criminal action,
police said.
They added that Joiner was practicing archery with a compound bow
when the arrow apparently bounced off the hay bale he was aiming at and
crashed through Shofner’s window. He was released on $25,000 bail.
ST. Louis, Reuters |