Eric Weinberger points to the hole left by the arrow/Mona Rivera
Posted: Wednesday, 25 March 2009 2:50PM
Whitestone Man Nearly Struck By Flying Arrow, 2nd Arrow Recovered
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police said Wednesday they found a second arrow in the Whitestone section of Queens after a man was nearly hit by one in the same area last night and days after a Yonkers woman was struck with an arrow in the Bronx.
Eric Weinberger, of 20th Road in Whitestone, said he barely missed being shot by an arrow that came whizzing into his house and hit the window frame near the side door of his home.
Mona Rivera reports
Weinberger says he was taking out the garbage when the arrow whizzed right past his head.
"I was coming in from taking out the garbage, then I heard a loud noise...looked up...saw the arrow sticking out of the side of my house," he said. "Two seconds earlier and it would have hit me," he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the second arrow was recovered at another home on Weinberger's street, several houses away.
This latest attack took place just days after a 51-year-old Yonkers woman was struck in the stomach by an arrow in the Bronx. She was hospitalized, but has since been released.
A local resident was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting in what police area calling an accident.
The arrow struck the house very close to where Weinberger's wife and daughter were sitting.
"It could have hit one of them, God forbid," he said.
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