Carjacking arrest leads to confession of murder
A 33-year-old man arrested Sunday soon after allegedly razor-slashing a carjacking victim subsequently confessed to killing a person a week ago, according to investigators, providing a grisly narrative of stalking, illegal drugs and an attack with a chunk of asphalt.
Alexander Acs rode with detectives to an apartment on Rio Grande Avenue south of Orlando city limits and west of Orange Blossom
Trail where authorities found a body too decomposed to identify, the Orange County Sheriff’s office reported Monday afternoon.
Acs is accused of a trail of violence that began with his arrival in Orlando on Jan. 7 to find a former girlfriend who pressed charges against him in Hillsborough County, according to the affidavit, which did not describe the nature of those charges.
According to the sheriff ’s office’s summary of his confession, Acs, a ride-share driver, stayed with someone in Orlando not identified other than as a “him” and purchased drugs such as MDMA
— also known as “Molly” or Ecstacy. Acs grew agitated with the man on several occasions and on Jan. 11, Acs brought a “large piece of asphalt” into the apartment and, though the man put up a “little bit of a fight,” hit him over the head.
After the man begged for his life, Acs told authorities he tied the man up with a charger cord, stuffed a sock into his mouth, unsuccessfully searched the home for a gun, and finally hit the victim “approximately two additional times,” the affidavit states.
Acs told authorities he then dragged the body into a bedroom, covered it with clothes, turned the air conditioner to its lowest setting and doused the home with lighter fluid in “an effort to cover the smell…decomposing body would eventually give off.”
Afterward, Acs “wandered Orlando, sleeping in the woods,” attempting to track a male friend of his former girlfriend, according to authorities.
On Sunday, Acs “attempted to contact the male friend, which ultimately resulted in the carjacking situation” near Texas Avenue and Americana Boulevard about a mile east of The Mall at Millenia.
In their response to an emergency call to the carjacking, deputies found and arrested Acs. He was charged Monday with first-degree murder. The sheriff ’s office is expecting to add charges of attempted murder, robbery and carjacking.
According to Acs’ arrest report, he told an investigator he “intends to plead guilty to the murder and hopes to receive the death penalty.”
The carjacking victim is expected to survive and the murder victim’s identity will be released when verified, the sheriff ’s office stated.