A 51-year-old who was dropping off two friends at a Bronx nursing home when she was shot in the stomach by an arrow. On a quiet Riverdale street, Denise Delgado-Brown collapsed and told her friends, "They shot me with an arrow!"
The Daily News reports that Delgado-Brown "clutched the shaft of the 30-inch long arrow that pierced her 2 inches above her bellybutton and screamed for her friends to call 911." Friend Olga Rivera said, "I thought it was a joke... She wanted to take it out, but I told her not to." Delgado-Brown, described in the Post as "a traffic court officer [who] helped run the youth ministry at the Yonkers Christian Assembly, sang in the choir and volunteered to feed the homeless," was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where she is in stable condition after emergency surgery.
Police swarmed the area—also with a helicopter— to find the shooter. The cops don't think that Delgado-Brown was the target, because, apparently, "the arrow was facing downward when it struck Brown leading police to believe that it was descending after being fired high into the air." The fiberglass arrow with yellow feathers and a rounded metal tip is also apparently one used for practice or hunting. The arrow could have been launched from a nearby picnic area. A police source told the News, "It's a freak thing." Naturally, residents of the nursing home are upset: One 87-year-old resident said to the NY Times, "That’s something really unusual. All the ladies in there will be really shaken up.”
