A woman was shot in the face with a crossbow Monday evening while at her job in Saddle Brook, police said. Officers responded to the business on Route 46 east shortly before 6 p.m., but the shooter had already fled the scene, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Police did not identify the business where the woman worked.

Authorities are investigating what they are calling “an attempted homicide” after a woman was shot in the face with a crossbow in northern New Jersey Monday afternoon. Shortly before 6 p.m. the Saddle Brook Police Department responded to a 911 call reporting a woman who was seriously injured at her job,