A man accidentally shot a woman in the stomach with a 30-inch arrow when he fired it at a fence and it went through to the property next door, police said Thursday. Eric Collins, 27, was arrested Thursday on charges of assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon in the baffling incident last week in the tranquil Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale, said Paul Browne, the New York Police Department's deputy commissioner for public information. Collins wasn't aiming at anyone, and Sunday's shooting was believed to be accidental, Browne said. The arrow hit Denise Delgado-Brown, a traffic court officer in suburban Yonkers, as she dropped off fellow parishioners after church. She later said she thought a baseball slammed into her. She was hospitalized but has since been released. Police believe Collins had about a half-dozen arrows and shot one into the white fence, a relatively short distance. It went through the fence and ricocheted up, hitting Delgado-Brown as she escorted people to the nursing home next door, police said. Police said the carbon aluminum arrow was a type used for target practice and capable of traveling more than 300 yards.
