California / IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Victim of Crossbow Attack Improves

The condition of a man authorities say was shot in the head by his crossbow-wielding roommate was upgraded to serious after surgeons removed the arrow. Arthur Ekvall, 29, was talking and appeared to be in good spirits. It took surgeons more than two hours to cut an incision in Ekvall’s forehead, unscrew the arrowhead and remove the arrow’s shaft from the base of his skull. Ekvall told police he awoke with a terrible pain in his head and saw his roommate, Jesse Solis, 25, reloading a crossbow. The arrow had entered the base of Ekvall’s neck and traveled up through his head until it protruded from the side of his forehead near his left eye. Solis was held at the San Diego County Jail for investigation of attempted murder and auto theft, authorities said.