Bow and Arrow Attacker Pleads Guilty

If you see this man, do not approach

Last year, NY was terrorized by a string of highly unlikely (accidental) bow-and-arrow attacks. Today, we can sleep a little more easily with some closure: Eric Collins, the man who mistakenly shot a 51-year-old woman in the stomach with an arrow, pleaded guilty yesterday to assault. Collins will be sentenced in June to 143 days of community service and three years of probation for firing a deadly, dangerous, very old-fashioned weapon.

Collins was moving into a new apartment in the Bronx when he decided to show off for friends by shooting the arrow through a wooden fence. The arrow ricocheted into the stomach of next door neighbor Denise Delgado-Brown, who had to have part of her bowel removed because of the damage done by the arrow.

Although arrow attacks are at an all-time low so far this year, it doesn't mean the cycle of arrow violence has ended completely.

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