A Vancouver man mistakenly shot by police searching for a fleeing gunman said Monday that officers didn't shout a warning or say anything to him before they opened fire.

Brent Graham said one bullet passed through his thigh after two Vancouver police officers and a Clark County deputy fired several shots at him on Halloween morning in a wooded area near the 700 block of Northeast Blandford Drive.

"It was totally unjustified. ... I'm lucky I was only hit once," Graham, 55, told the Oregonian.

Graham had minutes earlier called 911 to alert them to a suspicious car parked with rifle cases inside. Graham lives in the area and had spotted the car as he was driving to work at a Portland-based private security firm.

He said he got out to take a look and wasn't aware of the car's connection to an earlier shooting. He said he never saw the officers arrive with their guns drawn and didn't know who was shooting at him

His thoughts were to "get out of the way and dive," he said.

Vancouver police said they shot at Graham because he matched the suspect's description – a white man in his 50s-- and they wanted to prevent him from fleeing into the woods. They didn't realize the 911 caller was still at the scene.

Graham – who had noted on his call to 911 that he was armed -- took cover behind a gravel pile and fired a single shot that didn't hit anyone, police said.

The Clark County Sheriff's Office investigated Graham's shooting and has forwarded its findings to the Clark County prosecutor for consideration of charges against the officers involved, said Kim Kapp, a Vancouver police spokeswoman. The two Vancouver officers, Cpl. Chris LeBlanc and Officer Brian Frances, returned to full duty on Dec. 17, Kapp said.

They were placed on administrative leave after the Oct. 31 shooting – a standard practice in officer-involved shootings.

The Clark County Sheriff's Office did not return a call for comment on the status of Deputy Anthony Spainhower. Authorities have not released how many shots the officers fired or whose bullet struck Graham.

Graham said his wound has healed, but he's now easily spooked by loud noises.

He said he has hired a lawyer, but would not say if he plans to take any legal action. He referred further questions to his lawyer. A message left for Graham's attorney, Steve Thayer, wasn't immediately returned.

Authorities released an hour of calls to 911 that came in when police shot Graham and from the drive-by shooting that police were investigating when they encountered Graham.

John Kendall, 58, had shot his next-door neighbor, 33-year-old Abigail Mounce, in the face with a rifle about four miles away near Northeast 63rd Street and Andresen Road.

Kendall then drove to Blandford Drive, fled into the woods and fatally shot himself, police said.

Abigail Mounce survived the shooting. While still in the hospital last month, Mounce said her right cheek had to be reconstructed and she likely would lose her right eye.

The neighbors had been in the midst of a property dispute when the shooting occurred. In March 2013, Mounce and her husband, Erich, sued Kendall in Washington Superior Court for constructing "an unsightly temporary tarp structure" and operating a vacuum cleaner repair service in a shed on his property, court records show. They also sued Kendall for allegedly renting out his house to a large number of people who frequently parked cars on the street.

The couple and Kendall were scheduled to appear in court on the day of the shooting, according to court records.

Nearly two dozen 911 calls taken in the first eight minutes after Kendall shot Mounce shows confusion over the race of the shooter, the color of his car and how many shooters were involved.

Callers reported that Kendall was in his silver Buick in front of Mounce's car when he fired several shots from the driver's side window, made a U-turn and fired at his neighbor's car again as he drove away.

The first calls came in at 8:22 a.m., which included calls from a driver who was stopped close enough that she reported bullets bouncing off her car and a chief at the Vancouver Fire Department Station 5 across the street from the shooting.

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Both reported at least a dozen shots fired. The fire chief said the suspect was black.

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Another woman who called 911 reported the shooter's car was black. A male 911 caller reported the car was blue.

Another firefighter, Deputy Chief Dan Olson, said a man with an AR-15 came out of a nearby home shortly after the shots were heard.

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Another male caller reported the shooter had a shotgun and was "firing right out the window."

"He was firing at a car right behind him and I was just to the right and I got the hell out of there," the caller said.

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Erich Mounce called 911 at 8:25 a.m. and frantically tried to explain to a dispatcher that his wife had been shot and he was taking her to the hospital. At one point, he is heard screaming "no" twice.

"Are you shot?" the dispatcher asked Erich Mounce.

"No, my wife is," he said. "She's shot in the head. I'm taking her to the hospital."

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Graham, who found Kendall's Buick parked off the road in a ditch, called 911 at 9:34 a.m. He said he saw no one around the car, that he saw gun cases inside and that the car was locked and still warm.

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Twelve minutes later, Graham called 911 again.

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"I've been hit and I'm armed," he said. "Leg. Right femur." His line then went dead and a dispatcher called Graham back at 9:49 a.m.

He calmly explained that he was shot, that police were with him and he was applying pressure to the wound. He did not say who shot him.

"It's starting to hurt," Graham said at one point with a slight laugh.

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Kendall was likely already dead by the time officers arrived, but his body and his car were blocked from the view of the officers, Vancouver police said.

The officers watched Graham circle behind his own car and shot at him, Vancouver police said. Graham described his car as a blue Crown Victoria.

-- Everton Bailey Jr.