Overview

• Authorities identified the suspect as Grant Hagood-James, who faces an armed carjacking charge and additional counts and is being held without bond.
• Deputies say the victim was forced at gunpoint out of his car along A1A in the Daytona Beach Shores area before the vehicle was recovered with a discarded firearm nearby.
• Investigators report the suspect jumped into the Halifax River, swam to a Port Orange restaurant, ran through it, returned to the water and hid in mangroves before capture.
• Volusia Air One, a drone, K9 teams and boats from Port Orange and Edgewater assisted, with deputies locating the suspect about 50 yards from Deck Down Under.
• Officials say motive remains unclear; body-worn video shows the suspect asking for a cigarette after arrest and mentioning alligators in the water.