The noise of gunshots and sparks spitting out the barrel of a firearm shattered the relaxed atmosphere. And Randall saw he was in the cross hairs of the shooter, his housemate, Mark Martins.

Those "first couple of shots should have killed me," said the 43-year-old Randall in a telephone interview with The Maui News on Tuesday from his hospital bed at Wilcox Memorial Hospital on Kauai. (He said he was flown to the Garden Isle because the only available medical specialist for his gunshot wounds was there.) "Something was coming out of the gun, there were sparks."

At first, Randall thought Martins was shooting blanks, but then he felt something hit him in the shoulder.

"I started to turn and run."

Another round struck him in the back of his left arm below the elbow. The bullet came out through his forearm.

"Oh my God! I'm shot," Randall thought.

Randall said he then saw Martins aiming at other people, and the injured man threw his beer bottle at Martins, who fired another shot toward him.

"That's when I got grazed in the leg," he said. "I was in a full run. I threw the bottle and turned and ran. He was just shooting, shooting, shooting," he said.

Martins, 53, has been charged with second-degree attempted murder and other lesser charges stemming from the shooting reported around 10:40 p.m. May 2.

The shooting was followed by a 7.5-hour standoff between Martins and police on a property along Kula Highway 1.5 miles from Rice Park. The incident closed a portion of Kula Highway. Police later recovered a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.

A preliminary hearing for Martins is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today. On Monday, he told a district judge he wanted to represent himself in criminal proceedings. He was being held on $170,000 bail.

Randall said Martins "shouldn't go to jail. He should go to a mental hospital. He needs to be helped. He doesn't need to get bail because he's crazy."

The shooting victim expressed fear for himself and others if Martins were released on bail.

"Nothing's going to stop him," including a temporary restraining order, Randall said. "We're scared. Everybody's scared. Everybody is suffering from post-traumatic stress."

Randall remained in pain Tuesday as he was recovering from multiple surgeries.

The bullet that hit him in his arm went through his bone and created "a nice hole," he said. A bullet also grazed his right inner thigh just inches below his groin.

While it's unclear exactly what might have triggered Martins' shooting spree, Randall said Martins came out of a home while the barbecue was ongoing and asked whose car was parked behind his truck. One of Randall's friends quickly moved his vehicle.

Then, according to Randall, Martins came out again, announced he wasn't going anywhere and told the group of about nine people to enjoy their barbecue.

Then 10 to 15 minutes passed before Martins came out with a gun.

"I heard him yelling something," Randall said.

Randall did not understand what Martins was saying, but friends told him Martins' remarks were directed at him. After he was shot, Randall ran to his mother's house and a neighbor's residence to warn them and tell them to call police.

"That guy's gone postal," Randall said he told his mother, who owns the nearly 1-acre property, including the residence that both Randall and Martins lived in, although in separate quarters.

Eventually Randall and those at the barbecue ran to safety at a neighbor's yard.

"We just hear the gun just going and going," Randall said.

Randall said he was about to walk down the road to Kula Hospital when the police came.

While Randall and others were waiting for police, Randall's half-brother, Jason Bass, strayed from the group at the neighbor's yard and tried to talk to Martins.

A van separated Martins and Bass, who asked the gunman, "What are you doing?"

Martins then shot "four times at me," said Bass, who sought cover behind the vehicle.

Bass said Martins apparently recognized his voice and told him he did not have "a beef" with him. Martins then ran into the house.

Bass said he was spending time with his brother while he's being hospitalized on Kauai. Randall expected to be discharged on Thursday.

Randall said he had thought Martins was a great tenant – one who pays his rent on time and minded his own business.

But, "once in a while, he had these raging fits," he said. "You would hear him screaming and yelling."

But Martins never shared why or who he was upset at, said Randall, who speculated his violent outburst was rooted in being mentally disturbed.

"I'd even forgive this guy. He's nuts," he said.