MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A Miami Beach man is facing an attempted murder charge after police said he went to a South Beach park on Sunday morning and set out to randomly stab a person. But he’s facing even more charges after police said they made disturbing discoveries on his phone.

Miami Beach Police Department detectives said Sebastian Datorre Rodriguez, a 21-year-old who lives in the wealthy La Gorce neighborhood, went to Soundscape Park at 400 17th St. just before 3 a.m. and stabbed a man sleeping there.

According to an MBPD arrest report, first responders arrived about eight minutes later and took the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Detectives said he would later tell police that he awoke to pain in his neck and the suspect, later identified as Datorre, telling him, “There, gotcha.”

Police said the victim chased down Datorre with the same knife pulled from his neck, but couldn’t catch up to him.

They said that less than 15 minutes after the stabbing, Datorre walked into the police station and told an officer he had just “stabbed someone in the neck.”

Investigators said Datorre, who is autistic, told them that “he had been thinking about stabbing someone for the past two or three days and wanted to carry it out,” telling them “he did not want to be a burden to his family and wanted a ‘change of scenery.’”

Datorre, police said, “believed that stabbing someone would send him to prison for a long time” and set out to stab a “random person” at the park.

According to the report, he told detectives that he first saw a couple arguing in the park and approached one of them “intending to stab him,” but they both got in their car before Datorre had the opportunity to carry out the attack. The two had no idea he was about to target them, police said.

That’s when police said Datorre turned his attention to the apparently homeless man. Datorre, according to the report, told investigators he “did not care about whether the victim would survive the attack,” later explaining “that he understood his actions were incorrect and he was ready to face the consequences.”

Investigators said he also volunteered that he had child sexual abuse material on his phone. According to a separate arrest report, Datorre had already been the subject of an ongoing investigation after MBPD received several online tips about illicit material being shared from Datorre’s address.

Police said he admitted to sharing child sexual abuse material and bestiality content on chat application Discord, saying he would send it “to people he would find to be mean or a bully” in order to “scare them and up the ante.”

Investigators said on Datorre’s cellphone, they found child sexual abuse images depicting boys and girls as young as “9 to 11 years old.” They said files shared on Discord depicted victims as young as “4 to 6 years old.”

They said they also found videos that showed men engaged in lewd acts with various animals, including a snake, a turtle and “what appears to be a dolphin.”

Investigators took Datorre into custody on the attempted second-degree murder charge, plus six charges related to the possession of child sexual abuse material and three charges related to the possession of videos depicting sexual conduct with animals.

As of Monday, he was being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

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