Monday, November 06, 2006

Dude shoots his neighbor with bow & arrow?

Jury selection was to begin Monday for the trial of a man accused of fatally shooting a neighborhood visitor through the chest with a razor-tipped deer hunting arrow.

Thomas Sirico, 35, fired the 3-foot arrow at Juan Carlos Munoz, a 27-year-old father of three boys, during a brief argument in January, Suffolk County prosecutors said. Before aiming his powerful $1,200 compound bow, Sirico yelled at Munoz from across the street, "Do you want trouble?" witnesses told police.

Munoz, who was visiting friends in Sirico's Mastic neighborhood, pulled out the aluminum arrow, which was sticking through his back, before stumbling around and collapsing into the street, witnesses said. He died at a hospital; an autopsy showed the arrow struck near his heart, cutting off blood flow.

Sirico ran off but was captured later by state police in Westhampton Beach, about 15 miles away, prosecutors said. Sirico has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder and has been held without bail. His attorney, Eric Naiburg, said there were "serious questions about whether or not this was intentional." Article here.

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