Man Accused of Shooting Man in Head Just Hours After Hurricane Ian, Apprehended by Eustis Police Tuesday

EUSTIS, Florida—Less than a month after a man was shot in the head the day Hurricane Ian made its way through Eustis, his attempted killer is behind bars, according to Eustis Police Chief Craig Capri.

Only Inside Lake was on the scene the day of the shooting and at EPD Tuesday after Christopher Worlds was picked up on the warrant for attempted murder. Detectives worked diligently on this case for nearly a month, “I have zero tolerance for gun violence in my city,” Capri told Inside Lake Tuesday.

On Sept. 29, shortly before 5 p.m., EPD responded to Lee’s Market, 1333 East Orange Avenue on a report of a battery and a shooting. When officers arrived, they found the victim, a 22-year-old male, in the alley between Family Dollar and Lee’s Market, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. The bullet struck the man just below his right eyebrow and exited through his right temple, the detective working the case said. The victim was airlifted to a Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford and survived his wound, according to Capri.

EPD detectives arrived on the scene and viewed surveillance video from the market and saw footage of two females in a verbal altercation that escalated when one woman punched the other woman in the face, that woman is then seen pulling a purple firearm with a silver slide and three more women break up the fight. The woman who threw the punch then gets into her vehicle and the woman with the gun follows her at first, and then puts the gun in her vehicle.

Several females walk up to the woman who threw the punch and begin arguing with her and the other woman again retrieves her gun. The woman who threw the punch gets out of her vehicle and begins punching another female in the backseat of the vehicle next to her and another fight ensues between at least five females. The gunshot victim then walks up and breaks up the fight and then walks into Lee’s Market and the woman with the gun yells in his direction; both women then leave in separate vehicles.

A few minutes later, a red, older model Hyundai pulls into the parking lot and a man, later identified as the husband of the woman holding the gun, exits the vehicle and appears to talk to the gunshot victim. As the two men talk, Dominic Brokenborough and Christopher Worlds, aka Kato, aka Kado, aka Voodoo, approach, and the woman with the gun pulls up with five women. As the women approach the men, another fight occurs out of the view of the camera, according to the report. About 20 seconds later, several people are seen running into the view of the camera and that is when police believe the shooting occurred and everyone involved fled the scene.

The older model Hyundai was spotted in the area not long after the shooting and as an officer followed the car, it suddenly stopped, and Brokenborough exited the vehicle. The car then turned onto North Exeter Street and was pulled over as it approached Magnolia Avenue, the report states.

Brokenborough, 34, of Mount Dora, was found nearby and officers believed at the time he fled the vehicle on foot. He was apprehended by road patrol officers behind a nearby business and said he did not know officers were trying to pull the vehicle over. The driver, who also said he was unaware officers were attempting to stop him, was detained and questioned. He was identified as the husband of the woman with the gun, but Inside Lake is not naming him because he has not been charged with a crime at this time. Brokenborough was searched and officers found six baggies containing a substance that tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine, in addition to numerous pieces of drug paraphernalia. He was arrested and transported to the Lake county Jail, where he was released on $3,000 bond.

Throughout their investigation detectives interviewed witnesses and the victim and Worlds was identified as the shooter.

On Tuesday, detectives received a tip on Worlds’ whereabouts, and he was apprehended near a shed in the 600 block of Danvers Street. A gun was found stuffed under an old mattress near where Worlds was apprehended; that gun is not the gun that was used in the shooting, an EPD detective told Inside Lake.

Worlds is facing a slew of charges, including attempted second-degree murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, two counts of possession of firearm by a convicted felon, two counts of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, carrying a concealed firearm, discharging a firearm in public and improper exhibition of a firearm. He is being held in the Lake County Jail on $104,000 bond.