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Florida prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the “demonic” MS-13 gang member accused of decapitating an Uber Eats driver — revealing that the innocent family man had been stabbed 35 times.
State Attorney Bruce Bartlett filed a “notice to seek the death penalty” against Oscar Adrian Solis Jr., 30, on Friday, the same day the gangbanger was indicted for first-degree murder and abuse of a dead human body, both felonies, court records show.
The aggravated circumstances listed included that “the capital felony was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Bartlett told the Tampa Bay Times.
“I cannot focus on how an individual can be so vile,” he said of the MS-13 gangster and his seemingly random slaughter.
Solis was caught on security video yanking Randall Cooke, 59, into his home in Holiday as he delivered food on April 19, according to officials.
Inside the house, Cooke was stabbed 35 times, Bartlett told the local outlet.
He was chopped up and dismembered, with a “human foot wearing a black sock” among body parts found in trash bags Solis was seen dumping with another man, he told the Tampa Bay paper.
“I cannot for the life of me believe he was so nonchalant in what he did,” Bartlett said of footage allegedly showing Solis disposing of body parts.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco previously detailed how Cooke had just been a working man trying to make “his last delivery of the night.”
“And this person killed him for no reason and took him away from his family,” the sheriff said at the time.
“You always say the word evil, but this is demonic.”
Solis had only moved to Florida in January, when he was paroled after serving four years in an Indiana prison for assault and burglary.
He has a lengthy rap sheet that also includes stabbing a fellow inmate in prison.
That record was also listed as an aggravated circumstance justifying the death penalty, Bartlett wrote in his notice.
“The defendant was previously convicted of another capital felony or of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person,” he wrote.
Solis remains in custody ahead of an arraignment scheduled for June 6, records show.
