A man who was shot in the back parking lot of a restaurant on the corner of Elm Road and Overland Avenue Monday night, limped over to a nearby home and onto a porch where he cried for help.

"I opened the door, I drug him inside and his leg was kind of dangling from the calf down," Daniel Clawson said.

Clawson was among the neighbors who heard the gun shots go off at around 8:20 p.m. and called 911. He thought he heard about five to six shots total.

Clawson looked out his window and saw a vehicle possibly leaving the scene.

"We saw a car going down the road kind of slow with somebody hanging out the back passenger window," he said.

The man who came to his porch claimed he didn't exactly know how he got hurt.

"He just kept saying he didn't know what happened, he said he got hit by a car and that it wouldn't have been anybody that he knew," Clawson said.

Clawson pointed out a trail of blood that was left behind in the back yard of another property and on his porch.

Howland police spent Tuesday questioning witnesses to identify a motive and the suspects in the black sedan that got away.

"There were two parties involved," Chief Nick Roberts said. "One or two subjects got out of the suspect vehicle and began firing rounds at other individuals."

Chief Roberts says both victims were shot in the leg.

One man was taken to St. E's by EMS and the other, a 17-year-old, was later dropped off at St. Joe's in Warren.

Chief Roberts says he's working with the county prosecutor's office on the investigation.