Man pleads guilty to criminal negligence by shooting NYC woman in stomach with 30-inch arrow

Man pleads guilty in shooting NYC woman with arrow

NEW YORK — A man who shot a 30-inch arrow through a fence and into the stomach of a New York City woman has pleaded guilty to acting with criminal negligence.

The Bronx district attorney’s office says Eric Collins will be sentenced to 143 days of community service and three years’ probation under the terms of the plea deal Tuesday.

Collins was moving to a new apartment in March 2009 and had a bow and arrow in a box. He fired an arrow at a fence and it went through and ricocheted, hitting Denise Delgado-Brown as she escorted church parishioners to the nursing home next door.

Delgado-Brown has since recovered.

Police say the carbon aluminum arrow was a type used for target practice and capable of traveling more than 300 yards.