A man has been charged after an Uber Eats driver was killed and dismembered while delivering food to a Florida home, US authorities have said.
Oscar Adrian Solis, 30, is charged with attempting to rob, then kill the man at his home on the evening of April 19. He attempted to hide his remains in rubbish bags.
“This was a horrific crime of passion,” Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told reporters.
“This was demonic. What he did was demonic.”
He said “it was a horrible scene out there” for investigators and Solis was “a very violent individual”.
Solis worked as a security guard at a strip club, according to court documents, and the Pasco Sheriff’s Office said he had a “long criminal history” in Indiana.
Mr Nocco said he was affiliated in Indiana with the violent MS-13 gang.
Solis had just been released from an Indiana prison in January following a four-year sentence for assault and burglary. The convicted criminal had lived in the Florida home for around three months.
The victim has been reported as Randall Cooke, 56, by the Independent.
“He was a guy just like everybody else, just trying to make a living for his family,” Mr Nocco said. The delivery driver had dropped his wife off and begun his shift earlier that afternoon.
He was “right around the corner” from his home when he was finishing his final delivery around 7pm, not knowing it would ultimately lead to his death.
“Investigators have determined that Solis pulled the victim into his home and attempted to rob him,” Pasco Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
“This was captured on Solis’s home surveillance. After that, Solis murdered the victim and attempted to conceal the victim’s remains.”
The remains were found in rubbish bags and a cooler, which also contained a receipt with Solis’s name on it.
Authorities went to Solis’s house on April 21 and spoke to a roomate of Solis, who provided CCTV footage.
Solis faces charges of murder while engaged in a robbery, failure to register as a convicted felon and for a parole violation, jail records show.
Evidence collected in the case includes blood found around the house and a key fob belonging to the victim that was found on Solis’ dresser, on top of his wallet.
The affidavit also says the victim’s car was found abandoned a short distance away, and inside were a trash bag containing blood-soaked rags and towels, a Door Dash bag like one the victim carried and an employment time card with Solis’ name on it.
Investigators also obtained surveillance video from the house showing the victim making the food delivery and, later, two men carrying heavy trash bags outside.
“Unfortunately what we found in some of those trash bags was human remains,” Mr Nocco said.
The other man, who worked as a driver for Solis, has not been charged.
The victim had been reported missing by his wife after he never came home from his Uber Eats deliveries. Uber told investigators the victim’s last reported location was at the Solis home.
