LEESBURG — The suspect in a vicious machete attack on a neighbor two weeks ago has formally been charged with murder after the victim died last week.

Carlos Lucas Reyes, 35, was formally charged after an autopsy conclusively showed that 61-year-old Gary L. Mosley Sr. died from wounds suffered in the attack in the early morning of June 29, police say.

Mosley was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition in the wee hours of Thursday, shortly after the attack at his Georgia Avenue home in Leesburg left him with severe lacerations to his head and arm.

According to police, Mosley and another man were drinking and playing cards in Mosley's screened-in porch when Reyes walked into the yard and tried to enter his home.

Mosley eventually opened the porch door to ask Reyes to leave, but then Reyes reportedly pulled out a machete and attacked him. The attack left Mosley with deep head wounds and nearly severed one hand, police say.

Acting on a tip later Thursday, officers went to Reyes's Waitman Avenue home in Leesburg, just a block away, where Reyes' wife admitted he came home in the middle of the night covered in blood, sweating and tired.

She said Reyes gave many suspicious explanations for his condition, saying he was attacked by a dog. Reyes told detectives the same story before finally admitting to the machete attack.

Police have not offered a motive in the attack, but according to the arrest affidavit, Reyes’ wife told detectives he had recently become increasingly violent and uses drugs, including PCP.

According to an arrest report released Friday, Reyes' wife said he poses a flight risk because he is in the country illegally.