A gunman who killed a Bronx couple execution-style in front of their tot-sized son more than 30 years ago has finally been caught after he \u201cspent decades hiding in plain sight,\u201d authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n
William Antonio Solis, 62, was arrested in Florida and charged in the sickening 1993 double-slay of Luis Guerrero, 31, and his 28-year-old wife Danis Sime, who were bound and shot in the head during a robbery that turned deadly in a Morris Heights apartment, the feds said.<\/p>\n
The case \u2013 which made headlines at the time after the couple\u2019s orphaned toddler was found outside, screaming for his father \u2013 was finally cracked by NYPD detectives and federal investigators with the help of a fingerprint pulled from duct tape.<\/p>\n
A 1993 newspaper article of the shocking double-murder. New York Post<\/p>\n
\u201cFor more than 30 years, this Bronx double murder has haunted a family and the people of New York,\u201d said Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton in a statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat ends today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors said Solis and two accomplices, who were not publicly identified, cooked up the \u201cplanned robbery\u201d of Guerrero, who was a drug dealer, at the apartment on June 21, 1993.<\/p>\n
Guerrero showed up thinking he was there to sell two kilograms of cocaine \u2014 but Solis and the two other brutes instead aimed a gun at him and threatened to open fire if he didn\u2019t follow their instructions, according to court documents.<\/p>\n
When he refused, the trio wrestled Guerrero to the ground and restrained his hands with a wire hanger and duct tape, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
One of the perps then hauled Sime and the couple\u2019s tot, who were waiting in their car outside, into the apartment, and then she was also tied up with duct tape, prosecutors wrote in a pre-trial detention letter to the judge.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a discussion about what to do, the defendant and his co-conspirators decided they had no choice but to kill Guerrero and Sime,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n
Danis Sime was bound an shot alongside her husband. New York Post<\/p>\n
Solis then allegedly \u201cstepped into a leading role,\u201d shooting Sime in the head as she lay on a bedroom floor and firing at her husband while he was on the living room floor, the feds said.<\/p>\n
The alleged killers took the child with them as they drove to the couple\u2019s home, which they ransacked for drugs and money before leaving the orphaned boy alone in the apartment, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
The tot was later found by a neighbor standing on the lawn in front of the apartment, according to a Post article printed at the time.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe was screaming \u2018Daddy, Daddy,\u201d neighbor Chris Anton told The Post back then. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The victims\u2019 bodies were found about 24 hours later.<\/p>\n
Solis, a Dominican Republic native who became a US citizen in 2001, left the Big Apple about 18 months after allegedly carrying out the double-murder and landed in Tampa, Fla. \u2014 where authorities picked him Thursday, the feds said.<\/p>\n
A fingerprint pulled from the duct tape helped crack the case when investigators matched it to Solis in June 2025, according to the detention letter.<\/p>\n
Michael Alfonso, special agent in charge at HSI New York. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n
\u201cAs alleged, William Solis spent decades hiding in plain sight more than a thousand miles from where he viciously murdered the Guerreros in front of their young child,\u201d\u00a0Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Michael Alfonso said in a statement. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis arrest is the result of years of meticulous investigative work by dedicated special agents and task force officers who refused to let this case go cold.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear if the two co-conspirators have been arrested. The Manhattan US Attorney\u2019s Office declined comment.<\/p>\n
Solis was charged with two counts of intentional killing while engaged in a narcotics conspiracy, which carries a maximum prison sentence of life or even the death penalty if he\u2019s found guilty.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s\u00a0indictment\u00a0sends a clear message:\u00a0the NYPD will\u00a0always work\u00a0to make sure criminals are held accountable, no matter how long it takes or how far they may run,\u201d said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A gunman who killed a Bronx couple execution-style in front of their tot-sized son more than 30 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4031,5302,277,57,238,9,11,10,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-207690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-cold-cases","9":"tag-jessica-tisch","10":"tag-manhattan-federal-court","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}