Carjacker fires bullet into woman’s Cadillac during rampage in The Villages

A carjacker fired a bullet into a woman’s Cadillac during a terrifying rampage in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.

An arrest report is providing details about a convicted felon who brandished a weapon at Colony Cottage Recreation Center and the nearby Walgreens at Colony Plaza.

The 911 dispatch center received multiple calls at 8:17 p.m. Wednesday reporting a man with a gun attempting to enter a vehicle at Walgreens, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Four minutes, later a sheriff’s office crime scene technician who was at Colony Cottage Recreation Center used her agency-issued portable radio to press her “man down” button, alerting all sheriff’s office employees equipped with agency-issued radios.

A woman was in a red Cadillac at Walgreens when 48-year-old Christopher Alan Grant approached her with a towel draped over a gun. He tried to open the door of her Cadillac. The woman said she was in “fear for her life” and drove a short distance away. She returned to Walgreens to let store employees know what had happened.  When she reached the parking lot, Grant fired the gun at her Cadillac. The bullet entered the driver’s side back seat and traveled across the center console, hitting the passenger side dashboard.

Inside the store, Grant had pointed the gun at a man’s head. Grant told the man to follow his orders or he would “blow his head off,” according to the report. Grant ordered the man to move from the rear of the store to the front of the store.

Grant, who stands 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds, grabbed a Walgreens employee by the arm. The Walgreens worker had been assisting a customer when a woman ran by screaming that a man was in the store with a gun.

Minutes later at Colony Cottage, Grant pointed his gun at a man and forced him into his vehicle. Grant was seated in the passenger seat and ordered the man to drive. The man had discreetly removed a backpack from his car which held the vehicle’s key fob, in an attempt to halt the carjacking. The man spotted the sheriff’s office crime scene technician’s van and made a break for it. Grant chased the man toward the crime scene technician’s vehicle where he pointed the gun at the man as well as the crime scene technician.

Deputies descended on the scene and took Grant into custody.

He continued to be held Wednesday night at the Sumter County Detention Center.