Police in Tampa seized William Antonio Solis, the man who carried out a double murder in the Bronx in 1993. The killings, executed while a three‑year‑old watched, remained unsolved for 33 years until fingerprints finally matched the suspect last year by federal agents, who also noted his dual citizenship today.

Grand jury indictment on Tuesday charged Solis with two counts of murder, each eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors said he led the attack, separating a couple and using a pillow to subdue them before shooting. The child survived, a fact that deepened the case’s notoriety in New York city.

Investigators traced the crime to a drug‑deal plot involving Luis Guerrero. Three men, later identified only as co‑conspirators, met at an apartment to steal cocaine but instead murdered Guerrero and his wife. Solis fled New York in 1994, settled in Tampa, and lived there undetected for three decades without law attention.

Federal agents arrested Solis Wednesday in Tampa, where he had been a U.S. citizen since 2001 and also held Dominican citizenship. He will appear before a Florida magistrate on Wednesday afternoon, while the case underscores how forensic advances can finally close cold cases that once seemed unsolvable to investors and lawmakers.