The owner of an exotic bird store in New Jersey was shot in the face by a crossbow-wielding suspect just weeks after a $7,000 parrot was stolen from the same shop, police said.

"Emotionally, I'm shaky," said the owner of Saddle Brook's Birds by Joe 2 on Thursday. On Monday, she was shot in her store with a crossbow.

Katarina wasn’t sure what to expect when she unlocked the doors of Birds By Joe 2 on Roue 46 Saddle Brook on Friday, Feb. 21—the first time she’d officially reopened since being shot with a crossbow inside her own store.

A suspect has been arrested in the shocking crossbow attack on a North Jersey bird store owner, authorities said Tuesday. Raymond Carey, 53, was nabbed in Pine Beach, about 65 miles south of the crime scene in Saddle Brook, the Bergen County prosecutor’s office said. He was charged with first-degree attempted murder.

A female employee was shot in the face with a crossbow at the same Saddle Brook bird store where a $7,000 African parrot was stolen last month, authorities and store officials said.The attack — an attempted homicide — happened around 5:55