Doctors are predicting a complete recovery for a man who was shot through the head with an arrow that police say his roommate fired from a crossbow.
Arthur Ekvall, 29, was listed in serious but stable condition Tuesday at Mercy Hospital, where doctors who removed the arrow said it had not caused any brain damage. His roommate, 25-year-old Jesse Solis, was jailed without bail.Ekvall awoke early Monday in extreme pain, flipped on a light and saw his roommate reloading a crossbow, police spokesman Bill Robinson said.
Despite the pain from the arrow piercing his head, Ekvall scuffled with his roommate and disarmed him, Robinson said. Solis ran outside wearing only his underwear and drove off in Ekvall's pickup truck.
When police arrived, they could hardly believe their eyes. The arrow had entered the base of Ekvall's neck, they said, and traveled upward through his head until it protruded from the side of his forehead near his left eye.
During more than two hours of surgery, doctors unscrewed the arrow point from the stem, then pulled the shaft back out through Ekvall's neck, Mercy Hospital spokesman Michael Scahill said.
"It did not pierce his brain and he apparently didn't suffer any brain damage," Scahill added.