Chilling Purpose 18-12 months-Previous Teenager Stated He Stabbed His 81-12 months-Previous Roommate 113 Instances

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 accordance with a press launch from the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Each males and two extra roommates have been allegedly residing collectively in a bunch house, which Ojeda had moved into simply at some point 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 individual.

Per the Sheriff’s Workplace, the suspect mentioned he discovered the sufferer mendacity in mattress and proceeded to stab him 113 instances with a knife. He mentioned the sufferer requested, “Why would you need to do that to me?” whereas being attacked, however did not resist; as for why he did it, Ojeda allegedly informed authorities he wished 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 instances, he added, “the knife wasn’t very sharp.”

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

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

“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 disguise the knives.’ And so they 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 felony intent,” Judd added in a press convention. “He acted with malice, with forethought after which he went by the hassle to cover the weapon.”