Bronx double murder suspect arrested 31 years after execution-style killings

Federal agents arrested William Antonio Solis in Tampa, Florida, and pulled a 1993 Bronx double homicide back into active court proceedings after decades in the shadows. Prosecutors say the case centers on the execution-style killings of Luis Guerrero and Danis Sime at 1386 Nelson Avenue, a killing that haunted the family and New York for more than 30 years.

The federal indictment alleges that Solis, also known as Vegano and La Vega, took part in a narcotics robbery that turned lethal on or about June 21, 1993. According to prosecutors, Solis and two co-conspirators entered Guerrero’s apartment, restrained him, took drugs, lured Sime inside, and then overpowered and shot both victims as part of a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.

The case carried an especially grim human detail. NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said the killings were carried out in front of the couple’s three-year-old child, and earlier reporting described the child’s memory of a man covering his mother’s head with a pillowcase and taking her away. Neighbors later found the child crying outside the apartment complex, a detail that helped make the crime one of those long-cold cases that never really left public memory.

Authorities did not say in public filings exactly how Solis was tied to the murders, but Homeland Security Investigations said the arrest followed years of meticulous investigative work. HSI also said Solis had been hiding more than a thousand miles from the Bronx, underscoring how far the case had traveled before agents found him in Florida.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said the case had “haunted a family and the people of New York” for more than 30 years. The Department of Justice said Solis was expected to be presented that same afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsay Saxe Griffin in the Middle District of Florida, while the prosecution itself was assigned to U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in the Southern District of New York.

For true-crime followers, the arrest marks the moment a decades-old manhunt finally crossed from legend into process. With Solis in custody, the next stage is now procedural and brutal in its own way: a federal court appearance in Florida, then the fight over detention, extradition, and the murder and narcotics charges that could still carry life in prison.