The State police don't seem to think so...
"State police continue to look for the person who shot the cat. Troopers are conducting interviews with stores that may have sold the arrow."
Crossbow bolts (or even regular arrows) don't come cheap, and the archers I know (including myself) make all due effort to recover them. Certainly it's possible the cat could have taken an arrow accidentally just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, although with the limited info in the article, it appears to me more likely than not that it was shot intentionally.
I would guess that since the arrow missed the brain it fell from above and prolly exited through the jaw.
Cops aint all that bright either
“ducking”