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MIDDLETOWN — Kyndra Caudill said she never even got a look at the man who shot her Friday, July 4, outside Ozzy's bar on Grand Avenue.

"I didn't see anything," she said. "I remember talking to him and I don't remember anything after that."

The "him" is Spencer Davis, a 26-year-old Middletown man who was celebrating his first week of freedom after a year behind bars at the Warren Correctional Institution. He died that night in the bar's parking lot after he was shot twice at point-blank range in the back of the neck and once in the arm, said Middletown police.

Tanisha Bennett was outside the bar, still widely known by its former name the Grand Illusion, when she saw the shooter emerge from behind Monro Muffler Brake and Service.

"It was closing and we were all walking out the door," she said. "He walked right in front of me and I couldn't tell who he was. I thought he was about to rob someone."

The shooter, wearing jean shorts and a black hoodie, concealed his face behind a white towel, she said. He approached Davis, fired three times and then fled back around the service station.

"He took off before the guy ever hit the ground," Bennett said.

The suspect is a black male with a thin build, said Middletown police Lt. Rodney Muterspaw.

Bennett said the night had been a quiet one at the bar and Sharon Campbell, the bar's owner, said there were never more than 35 customers there the whole night.

"Everything was cool — no arguments, no fights," Bennett said. "Everything was calm. I'd never expect it to happen like that."

Caudill, 29, didn't know Davis before that night, but said he seemed like a fun, friendly guy.

Now, wearing a splint where a bullet pierced her left forearm, the single mother of a 5-year-old son is unable to work at her job as a hairstylist for a Cincinnati salon.

She's already had to miss work for the last three months after being injured in a car wreck April 3 on Ohio 4 — the same wreck that claimed the life of her sister, Megan McCoy.

The doctors gave her the OK to return to work last week. She worked Tuesday, but couldn't go in Saturday because of her injury.

"I worked one day," she said.

Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2511 or dwells@coxohio.com.