A man told Springfield police on Monday evening he had just turned onto E. Main Street from a Kroger store when the passenger window in his car suddenly shattered.

An officer arrived on scene and almost immediately concluded the damage was caused by a pellet, not a bullet, according to a Springfield police report. Another officer in the area had been investigating a suspicious activity call in which a male was reportedly shooting a pellet gun at passing cars from a driveway on Main Street.

One person reported seeing the man facing the road with the pellet gun. He told police his car was also struck.

Springfield police determined 21-year-old Taylor Thompson was the shooter. According to the report, he told police he had been target shooting at a fence, which was in the opposite direction of the road. He said he was unaware of what happened.

He said the pellets occasionally ricochet off the targets sending them in the opposite direction.

He was arrested on suspicion of criminal damaging, according to the report.

Thompson was not listed as being in the Clark County Jail Tuesday afternoon.