A Florida man was arrested Wednesday for the 1993 cold-case slaying of a man and woman shot execution-style in a Bronx apartment just steps away from their 3-year-old child, officials said.
William Antonio Solis, 62, was captured in Tampa more than three decades after he and two accomplices shot Luis Guerrero and his wife, Danis Sime, in the head during a drug robbery on June 21 of that year, officials charge.
“For more than 30 years, this Bronx double murder has haunted a family and the people of New York,” said Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton. “That ends today.”
Solis and his partners had arranged to purchase six kilos of cocaine off Guerrero, but after meeting him at a Bronx apartment, one of the robbers pulled a gun on the drug dealer and threatened to shoot, court documents show. Guerrero resisted, but the suspects managed to overpower the man, forcing him to the ground and binding his hands with duct tape and wire, according to prosecutors.
One of the robbers then went outside and returned a short time later with Sime and the couple’s young child, according to court documents. The robbers restrained Sime and placed her in a separate room from Guerrero as their captors decided their fate, ultimately choosing to kill the couple.
Solis shot Sime and then Guerrero with their child in the apartment, court documents show. The trio then made off with two kilos of cocaine and the child, driving to the victim’s apartment, which they ransacked looking for drugs and money, before leaving the orphan there alone, prosecutors say.
Before leaving, the suspects attempted to clean the crime scene of any incriminating evidence, but investigators recovered duct tape off which they were able to lift identifiable fingerprints that were matched to Solis in June 2025, court documents show.
Solis was born in the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the U.S. in 1981, according to prosecutors. He fled to the Tampa area about 18 months after the double murder.
If convicted, Solis faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison and a potential death penalty. He was due to appear before a Middle District of Florida judge on Wednesday.
With John Annese