A mother and her young daughter sitting at the window of their Queens home got the scare of their life last night when a metal-tipped hunting arrow crashed into the frame, missing the glass by inches.
The eerie attack came just days after a man was arrested for shooting a hunting arrow at a fence at his Bronx home. It penetrated and wounded a woman standing outside a nursing home next door.
“It was like a gunshot or something, really loud,” 13-year-old Kaitlyn Weinberger said of last night’s bizarre incident, which happened as her mom, Karen, helped her with homework.
Her dad, Eric, was taking garbage outside the 20th Road home in Bayside, shortly after 9:30 p.m.
“As I was getting back in the house, it whizzed right by me,” he said. “It just missed me maybe by two or three feet.”
He ran into the room shouting, “Get out of here! Somebody shot an arrow into the house!”
He said the arrow was made of fiberglass and was about 2 or 3 feet long.
“It looked like a hunting arrow. It had a metal tip on it,” he said.
The arrow penetrated the frame about 3 or 4 inches deep, he said.
Kaitlyn saw a dark van speed away after the arrow was fired. The dad said a second arrow was found near the property.
Weinberger, who works at a Costco in Yonkers, said he doesn’t believe he was targeted.
“I’m assuming it’s a prank or a copycat,” he said.
Additional reporting by Frank Rosario