Man arrested for armed carjacking in Volusia County after driver stops to give him a ride

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Halifax River, FL - A man in Volusia County is accused of committing an armed carjacking before ditching the car and ending up in mangroves in the Halifax River.

"I realized, you know, my life is in danger right now. I probably shouldn't fight this," said the victim of the carjacking, who wanted to be identified only as Kyle.

He said he was trying to get home after dark Monday night when he said he saw a man waving him down on A1A.

"He said he needed a ride," Kyle said. "After taking a look at him, I thought, this guy is sketchy. I said nope. I started to pull forward, but he stayed with the window, and that's when he said, 'I need this' … said, 'No, I need this.' That's when I realized he had a gun pointed at me."

He said the man took off with his car, along with his phone and wallet inside. He flagged down the next car he saw.

"Waved and was like please stop, please stop, and the person actually stopped, the first car that came by," Kyle said.

He said that driver let them use their phone to call 911. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said while that information was coming in, another 911 call came from a restaurant in Port Orange, not far from where the carjacking happened.

"They're calling saying that a white male swam up to the restaurant on the intercoastal, climbed in, ran through the restaurant, took his shirt off, ran back through the restaurant, goes back into the river, and swam back into the mangroves," Chitwood said of the second 911 call.

It led to a large law enforcement response on foot and by air and included four different agencies.

"We were able to locate this guy hiding in the mangroves," Chitwood said.

Grant Hagood-James was taken into custody, and he has now been charged with armed carjacking.