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Accident or intentional?

So we live in a suburban neighborhoods and we found an arrow lodged in our roof about a year ago. My husband was very concerned, but I stupidly blew it off as a random accident. Then, a few weeks ago I found 2 arrows lodged in our front walkway, perpendicular to our house and parallel to each other. In the middle of the afternoon. They were shot somewhere between 3 and 4 pm, while my daughter was outside in our tree swing approximately 15 feet away.

I called the cops, since is seemed to me that they were shot at our house, from the street, and on purpose. Cops went across the street to ask the neighbors, and the one not directly across from us but at an angle to us admitted he was practicing in his backyard and they must have "ricocheted". He has convinced everyone it was just an accident but it seems suspicious to me, given the angle of our house in respect to his, and the fact that not one but two arrows ( or 3 if you could the one in our roof last year) would have had to make it through multiple dense trees and bushes to end up where they were.

Granted, I have never shot an arrow in my life and I am extremely upset given that these arrows could have easily impaled my child sitting feet away, and that this guy is shooting arrows towards a suburban street in the middle of the afternoon. So my emotions are high and I may not be looking at it rationally, but I just don't see it how these could be due to "ricochet".

Could this have been an accident? Photos linked below (I apologize the arrow photos are not good).

arrow photo 1

arrows photo 2

bird's eye view of said shooting location and where arrows were imbedded

Photo taken from apparent shooting location

trees arrows would have had to go through

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