The 50-year-old woman who was shot in the stomach by an arrow as she dropped off her friends at a Bronx nursing home spoke to reporters yesterday. Denise Delgado-Brown told WCBS 2, "I was shocked. I just kept looking down going this can't be happening. I said … 'I got an arrow …' Who would've thought that someone would do that?" She added, "I was gonna touch it and I was gonna pull it out at first but it was stuck really deep in my chest. So I didn't do anything."
Initially she thought she might have been hit with a baseball but when she saw the arrow, she "started screaming." Her friend Olga Hubbard said, "The arrow was sticking out of her a full arm's length." Delgado-Brown, a Yonkers traffic court officer who volunteers as her church, had surgery to remove the arrow; she is recovering at St. Barnabas Hospital.
The police say they have many leads and would like the person who fired the arrow to step forward; Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, “The investigative premise is that it was an accident." The NY Times also reports that the cops are investigating where the fiberglass arrow may have been purchased; no stores in the city sell them and one Queens hunting supply store owner said many arrow are sold "out of garages and in basements" as well as the Internet.
