"He shot me without any warning,” the owner said of the man who allegedly pointed a crossbow at her face and fired on Monday.

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. The incident unfolded Monday evening at Bird’s by Joe 2,

The store’s owner, who is recovering from the crossbow shot to her face, said the shooting was unrelated to the earlier alleged parrot theft by a Passaic County man who was charged with the crime last month.