Mar 20, 2009 8:35 pm US/Eastern
Victim: Shooting Arrow 'Very Stupid Thing To Do'
Denise Delgado-Brown Doesn't Think Alleged Shooter Was Aiming For Her, But Wonders What He Was Thinking
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Police charged 27-year-old Eric Collins with assault and criminal possession of a weapon -- a bow and an arrow, which police said he fired into Denise Delgado-Brown's stomach.
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Police scored a bull's-eye.
They tracked down the man they said shot a woman with an arrow in the Bronx.
Now the victim is back on her own two feet and speaking about the alleged archer.
Eric Collins, a 27-year-old plumber employed by Westchester County, is the one who fired the arrow, police said, that went into Denise Delgado-Brown's stomach.
"They said they were going to make an arrest; I didn't think it would be so soon," Delgado-Brown told CBS 2 HD.
Detectives and others from the 50th Precinct brought Collins in Thursday afternoon when detectives saw he reacted nervously to the simplest questions. Detectives were seen going out of the apartment where Collins lives with arrows and other evidence.
It turns out that Sunday, the day Delgado-Brown was shot with the arrow, Collins was moving from Yonkers into his grandparents' apartment in Riverdale, on the same street where Delgado-Brown was standing. For some reason, police said, he fired the arrow.
But he kept quiet about it.
"Do I think it was directed towards me? No. Do I think it was a stupid thing to do? Very much so," Delgado-Brown said.
On Thursday, Delgado-Brown graciously allowed CBS 2 HD cameras to be there after she finally left St. Barnabas hospital and arrived back home in Yonkers.
There she was met with an outpouring of support from teary-eyed neighbors.
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