NEVADA, Mo. —
The 4-H archery shoot in Callaway County was all but over on Sunday.
Competitors, including 18-year-old J.T. Kitsmiller, of Nevada, were collecting their arrows. His team had finished 17 points out of first place.
“I didn’t feel anything really,” Kitsmiller said. “It just felt like someone hit me. It started hurting once I got to the hospital.”
Kitsmiller said he had been shot through his nose with an arrow, shot by a younger competitor. It entered the left side of his nose, breaking it.
He said the wound did not bleed much.
The arrow was removed when he reached University Hospital in Columbia.
Kitsmiller, who spoke by phone on Friday, said he was healing well. He also had a doctor’s appointment scheduled Friday.
“I’m doing really good for what happened,” he said. “I’ll know more after I see the doctor.”
Another appointment Kitsmiller had Friday was with the person who shot him. He said the 11-year-old archer from Macon had asked for an in-person meeting so he could apologize.
Kitsmiller said he would accept the apology.
He said that while he’s upset he was shot, he realizes it was a freak accident.
Kitsmiller is in the diesel technician program at Crowder College in Neosho.
Background
J.T. Kitsmiller said he has been competing in archery for four or five years with 4-H. He said he has advanced in the sport. He was part of a first-place team last month at the Missouri State Fair.
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