Man shot in Springfield Holiday Celebration incident tells police he looked the shooter in his eyes

Investigators continue to search for the people involved in the shooting incident during Springfield’s ‘Holiday in the City’ celebration on Friday night.

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News Center 7′s Haley Kosik obtained a copy of what police say happened on Friday.

Springfield officers found a man with a gunshot wound near Un Mundo Cafe, located right across the street from where festival-goers were gathering, police said.

The incident report says the victim, Montavion Griffin, heard someone fire a gun and began running towards the Clark County Public Library, according to police.

Griffin stopped to look back, making direct eye contact with the man that had the gun, police reported. This is when the shooter pointed his gun at Griffin and began to shoot, striking him in his upper right arm.

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Griffin and several other 911 callers were able to give a visual description of what the suspect looked like and what he was wearing, police said. The suspect was a light-skinned black male, around 30-years-old, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black mask.

Officers located several shell casings near COhatch Market on Fountain Ave near the library.

Griffin stated to police that he saw a black SUV pull up to a crowd gathered near COhatch Market, police reported.

The people inside of the SUV got out to confront the people in the street and that is when the suspect pointed a black handgun in the air and fired a round.

Griffin told police that he did not know any of the individuals in the argument before shots were fired, according to police.

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He was taken to Springfield Regional Medical Center and after being treated, he was able to give police all of the information, the incident report states.

We will continue to follow this story.

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