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Tahuya, Washington - A 35-year-old Washington man was in serious condition after his teenage daughter shot him with a hunting bow on Wednesday, according to the Mason County Sheriff's Office.The father earlier had grounded the 15-year-old and taken away her cell phone, Mason County sheriff's spokesman William Adam said.The teenager shot her father in the torso around 8 p.m. at their home in the Tee Lake area of Tahuya, about 35 miles west of Seattle. She then prevented her father from calling for help, Adam said.The man crawled out of his house and called 911 from a neighbor's home. He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center.The teenager fled into the woods but was found by a SWAT team in less than half an hour, Adam said. She will be held at the Mason County Juvenile Detention Facility.