A woman got a terrifying taste of the Old West this afternoon when she was struck by an arrow as she stepped out of a car at a Riverdale nursing home. Witnesses said Denise Delgado-Brown was dropping two friends off at the Schervier Nursing Care Center on Independence Avenue shortly after 1:30 p.m. when a black arrow with yellow feathers - apparently fired by an unknown archer - struck her mid-section near the heart.

"They shot me with an arrow!" a stunned Delgado-Brown, who lives in Yonkers, told friends as she collapsed near her KIA SUV.

Olga Rivera, a nursing home resident who was with the victim at the time, couldn't believe her eyes.

"I thought it was a joke," said Rivera. "She said, 'Call an ambulance.' I was hysterical. She said, 'Olga, I feel faint.' She was going to pull the arrow out, but we told her not to. We said, 'Olga, don't touch the arrow!'"

Rivera and another friend, Donna Hubbard, supported Delgado-Brown as they awaited the ambulance. "I came around the side of the car, and it was stuck right in her stomach, beneath her breasts, really close to the heart," said Hubbard. "I tried to hold her up because she was faint. I held her up until the ambulance came. It was bizarre at first, but then very, very scary."

SOURCE: Nypost