Man shot with arrows played dead

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

An Ohio man shot three times with arrows from a hunting bow said he urged his attacker to call 911 and then played dead to get the man to stop shooting.

Doug Stacey, 50, of Elmwood Place was hit twice in the back, puncturing a lung, and once in the hand. One arrowhead remains in his back. Doctors at University Hospital in Cincinnati are waiting for the swelling to go down before trying to remove it. Stacey narrowly avoided crippling or even deadly wounds, they said.

“I didn’t think I was going to make it out of there,” Stacey told The Cincinnati Enquirer on Thursday from his bed at University Hospital. “I thought I was a dead man.”

Police said Stacey’s longtime friend wounded him with a hunting bow early Tuesday.

Stacey said he was letting Harry “Bo” Spivey stay with him after his wife left him. Stacey said he had given Spivey until Friday to move out but doesn’t know why a man he has known 20 years would come after him with a hunting bow.

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