Arrow Shooter’s Release Makes Reader Quiver

Re “Arrow Shooter Is Released,” July 2:

Deputy Owen Hall is out doing his job writing a citation to a traffic violator and is struck in the leg by a hunting arrow. The arrow shooter is discovered and arrested; several days later he is released because the Orange County district attorney’s office says no law was broken.

Tri Thanh Lam was shooting arrows in a residential neighborhood. His arrow goes astray and it never occurs to him that he could have injured or killed someone?

Lam didn’t even check to see where his arrow flew? If nothing else, he should be jailed for felony ignorance.

We pay Deputy Hall and other law enforcement officers like him to go out on a daily basis and risk their lives to protect us, and when one of them is injured in the line of duty we release the person who caused the injury because there is no law about shooting an arrow in a residential neighborhood? What kind of society do we live in?

I wonder: If a deputy district attorney was out interviewing a witness on the street and was shot with an arrow or if Gov. Davis was passing by and was struck by an arrow shot by the Robin Hood of Orange County, would the district attorney’s office release him because he had no intent to hurt anyone?

It is becoming very clear to me why people who have no respect for human life walk our streets today.

Edmond Diot

Westminster