Man pleads guilty in arrow shooting

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

A man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to kill another man by shooting him with a bow and arrow as he slept.

Harry Spivey, 57, pleaded guilty in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to attempted murder. Spivey admitted shooting three arrows into Doug Stacey on Sept. 7 at Stacey’s home in the Cincinnati-area village of Elmwood Place, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

Stacey, 50, has had several surgeries after being hit twice in the back and once in the hand with the arrows by Spivey, whom he considered a friend, the newspaper reported.

Authorities have said Stacey let Spivey stay with him after Spivey lost his home.

Stacey was sleeping on his couch when he “was awakened to an arrow piercing his back,” assistant prosecutor Rick Gibson said Monday.

When Stacey realized Spivey had shot him with a bow and arrow, he turned over and saw Spivey ready to fire a second arrow, Gibson said. Spivey told the victim that “this one’s for your heart,” Gibson said.