The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said the man wanted in connection to a homicide in Brooksville was taken into police custody on Friday.
Jeremy Patterson, 23, was taken into custody in a wooded area near the High Point community, off of Cortez Boulevard in Brooksville.
He was taken into custody without incident.
Initially, the sheriff's office said Patterson was a person of interest, but he was upgraded to a suspect just before noon Friday.
Authorities said the homicide happened at 10:16 p.m. on Thursday night at the entrance to the High Point Community in Brooksville, a 55 and over golf community.
The sheriff's office said someone called 911 and reported a possible medical emergency. Fire crews arrived and determined it was something criminal, the sheriff's office said.
The victim, a man who hadn't been named, was taken to a local hospital where was pronounced dead. No other information on his manner of death was released.
No additional details are available at this time.
