Nine-year-old girl accidentally struck in head by arrow

ROME - A nine-year-old girl was in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Floyd Medical Center Wednesday after being struck in the head by an arrow. <br> <br> Authorities said Amy Willoughby had just walked out the back door of her home yesterday when a 26-inch wooden arrow from a neighbor&#39;s yard cut through a wooden fence and struck the side of her head. <br> <br> The neighbor, ten-year-old Neal Brannon, was in his back yard shooting arrows at a ten-inch Styrofoam target. Sergeant Jerry Boyd of the Floyd County Police Department said the arrow apparently went through a crack in the privacy fence and into the Willoughbys&#39; yard, lodging in the left side of the girl&#39;s head. <br> <br> He called it a freak accident. <br> <br> Police said the bow used by Brannon was capable of pulling a 50-pound tension.

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