Moses Ojeda, 18, has been charged with first-degree homicide and tampering with bodily proof within the slaying of Patrick Benway, 81, this previous Sunday in Bartow, FL — this in line with a press launch from the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Each males and two extra roommates have been allegedly residing collectively in a gaggle dwelling, which Ojeda had moved into simply in the future previous to the assault after his launch from an area hospital. After his arrest, Ojeda allegedly informed authorities he had no issues with the sufferer and even known as him a superb particular person.

Per the Sheriff’s Workplace, the suspect mentioned he discovered the sufferer mendacity in mattress and proceeded to stab him 113 occasions with a knife. He mentioned the sufferer requested, “Why would you wish to do that to me?” whereas being attacked, however did not resist; as for why he did it, Ojeda allegedly informed authorities he needed to kill him as a result of he was “already dying.”

The sufferer, mentioned the sheriff, reportedly additionally claimed “the voices in his head informed him to do that” — and, when requested why he stabbed him so many occasions, he added, “the knife wasn’t very sharp.”

The suspect — who authorities say has no legal document — then admitted to cleansing the knife he used and placing it again within the kitchen, earlier than putting his bloody garments right into a laundry basket, per the sheriff.

“It is just like the satan confirmed up on the door and rocked all people’s world and took an harmless man’s life,” the sufferer’s landlord, Adrena Thornton, informed Bay Information 9. “He was very proud of the place he was at. My mama had simply talked to him the day earlier than and he was simply, he was simply actual joyful.”

“This was a mindless and tragic act of violence,” added Sheriff Grady Judd. “Our detectives, forensic investigators, and Bartow Police Division officers labored diligently to take Ojeda into custody and collect proof to carry him accountable.”

“His mom informed the individuals who owned the care facility, ‘You have to cover the knives.’ They usually did,” Judd claimed throughout a press convention. “However Moses discovered then and inside 5 hours of arriving on the facility, stabbed and killed our sufferer.”

“It is a no-brainer that the protection goes to be that of madness however I am telling you, he had clear legal intent,” Judd added in a press convention. “He acted with malice, with forethought after which he went by way of the hassle to cover the weapon.”