Justin Wesley Leverett, 37, of Mobile, Alabama, is charged with first-degree assault accused of punching another man's eyeball out of its socket and then punching the exposed eyeball, causing it to explode

Police in Mobile arrested a man on Friday who allegedly committed a brutal assault that caused a man's eye to explode.

Justin Wesley Leverett, 37, was wanted in connection with an assault that occurred in the area of Live Oak Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue last weekend at around 2:20pm.

Police say that Leverett punched the victim in the face so hard that it caused his eye to pop out of its socket.

Police said 'the suspect then punched the eyeball, causing it to explode.'

Leverett turned himself in to police and has been charged with first-degree assault.

The confrontation happened in a place called 'the bottoms,' which has a high crime rate.

'Things that you thought would only happen in Super hero action movies are happening everyday,' Pastor Marvin Lue, Jr, said to Fox 10.

His church is directly across from where police said the assault happened.

'Things that you thought would only happen in super hero action movies are happening everyday,' Pastor Marvin Lue, Jr, said. His church is right by where the assault occurred

'Just so horrifying, so horrific, so graphic. It used to be, you get in a fight, you get a black eye, you get hit in the stomach you go home. Now people are losing limbs, people are losing vital organs,' Lue said.

'We hope and pray that the violence ceases, people began to value life again. We focus so much on the murders but just acts of violence themselves are continuing to tear our community up in a way that's almost irreparable,' he explained.

Lue said crime is a major problem in that particular part of Mobile.

He said cleaning up 'the Bottoms' was part of his church's mission.

It wasn't clear from the police Facebook posting on the incident as to how the confrontation started.