A Long Island man has been charged with attempted murder after he fired a crossbow bolt at his sister on Friday, grazing the side of her face.
The Nassau County Police Department said they were called to the home in Lawrence just before 9:30 p.m. and found the 28-year-old woman bleeding from a laceration on the right side of her face. She was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
They determined her brother, 21-year-old Samy Sedhom, fired the arrow and placed him under arrest.
The sister told police she had just returned home from gym and pulled into the attached garage, WABC reported. She said she saw Sedhom sitting in his parked car across the street. Both she and Sedhom got out of the cars, and as she tried to enter the code to close the garage door, she felt a sharp pain on her face. She called police when she saw the blood.
Police arrived and found a crossbow bolt lodged in the back wall of the garage. They searched Sedhom’s bedroom and found a box for a crossbow, a Katana sword, and a MacBook, all of which they seized.
Prosecutors said at his arraignment on Sunday that Sedhom admitted trying to kill his sister and said he’d been planning the murder since Christmas. A judge remanded him to jail and ordered him to have no contact with his sister.
Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly the bolt split the victim’s ear in half and that if it had struck just a couple of inches over, “we would be talking about a homicide,” News 12 said.
Donnelly described the motive as a “brother-sister rivalry,” saying the pair had been fighting over the temperature inside the house.
“She liked to keep it cooler, he wanted it warmer,” she said.
Sedhom is charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, tampering with physical evidence, and stalking. He is due back in court on Wednesday.
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[Featured image: Samy Sedhom and his crossbow/Nassau County Police Department]