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So how many of you practice with your bow in your back yard? This must have been scary!
80-year-old Missouri woman shot with arrow at kitchen table
An 80-year-old woman babysitting her great grandchildren was hit in the face with an arrow while sitting at the kitchen table on Tuesday morning.
"I just feel like I’m lucky,” Margaret Shofner said.
From out of nowhere through the kitchen window, an arrow ripped right through Shofner’s screen, shattered the glass and careened to the kitchen table, scraped her nose then lodged in her mouth. At first, she didn't even know what hit her.
"Until I saw this black line across my face. I reached up like this and pulled it out and laid it on the table. That's when I realized what it was. And still it's hard to believe that you're shot in the house with an arrow, " Shofner said.
Police say 26-year-old Robert Joiner was practicing archery in his back yard nearby.
Stunned, Shofner didn't call police. Her grandson did when he came home about an hour later.
"I just sat here with the wash rag on my face until they came home. Of course, Brianna met them at the door and said grandma's been shot with arrow," Shofner told reporters.
Officers have seized Joiner's bow, the arrow, plus another arrow a neighbor had previously found.
Officials say even though Joiner didn't mean to hurt anyone, he's still being charged with second degree assault and armed criminal action.
This post is for informational purposes only.
80-year-old Missouri woman shot with arrow at kitchen table
An 80-year-old woman babysitting her great grandchildren was hit in the face with an arrow while sitting at the kitchen table on Tuesday morning.
"I just feel like I’m lucky,” Margaret Shofner said.
From out of nowhere through the kitchen window, an arrow ripped right through Shofner’s screen, shattered the glass and careened to the kitchen table, scraped her nose then lodged in her mouth. At first, she didn't even know what hit her.
"Until I saw this black line across my face. I reached up like this and pulled it out and laid it on the table. That's when I realized what it was. And still it's hard to believe that you're shot in the house with an arrow, " Shofner said.
Police say 26-year-old Robert Joiner was practicing archery in his back yard nearby.
Stunned, Shofner didn't call police. Her grandson did when he came home about an hour later.
"I just sat here with the wash rag on my face until they came home. Of course, Brianna met them at the door and said grandma's been shot with arrow," Shofner told reporters.
Officers have seized Joiner's bow, the arrow, plus another arrow a neighbor had previously found.
Officials say even though Joiner didn't mean to hurt anyone, he's still being charged with second degree assault and armed criminal action.
This post is for informational purposes only.
