Miami Herald<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\nStefano Eduardo Cremasco-Cicero, 36, is accused of knifing his mom to death inside his Miami apartment Friday morning. Miami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n
Police responded to the apartment building in the city\u2019s Brickell neighborhood shortly before 5 a.m. Friday for an \u201cunknown request\u201d where they found the restaurant manager drenched in blood on his clothing, hands and shoes, according to his arrest affidavit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero reportedly told officers, \u201cI was defending myself,\u201d before leading them to his apartment on the 47th floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cops responded to the ritzy high-rise shortly before 5 a.m. Friday morning. CBS News Miami<\/p>\n
Inside the unit, cops found his mom \u2014 who has not been publicly identified \u2014 lying on her side, covered in stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police also found several bloodied kitchen knives, a shattered glass, a broken wine bottle and two white shirts covered in blood after a search warrant was issued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero allegedly told police he acted in self-defense. Local10<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero\u2019s mom was staying with him while she visited from Mexico, his unidentified wife told police on the phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His wife, who was out of the country in France at the time of the bloody killing, said Cremeasco-Cicero was not close with his mother following his parents\u2019 divorce, according to the Herald.<\/p>\n
The son\u2019s wife told cops she didn\u2019t believe her husband suffered from any mental illnesses but noted he had been under a lot of stress while opening a new restaurant in Coconut Grove.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero\u2019s mother was staying with him while visiting from Mexico, his wife told police. Instagram\/fanocr\/<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero was born in Mexico but is of Argentine descent and works as the US operating manager of the high-end 1986 Steak House in Miami, the publication reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The mother and son had returned to the high-rise apartment the night before the brutal knifing around 10:30 p.m., according to surveillance footage and building key-fob logs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the morning, Cremasco-Cicero was seen entering an elevator around 4:25 a.m. wielding a knife and covered in blood, wearing a white T-shirt, khaki pants and white shoes.<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero works as the US operating manager of a high-end Miami steakhouse. Instagram\/fanocr\/<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage showed he dropped the knife after he exited the elevator.<\/p>\n
He then picked up the weapon and got into another elevator to return upstairs, according to the video. <\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero was seen returning to the elevator, wearing a different long-sleeved blue shirt and exited the building while using his phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero was covered in blood when police arrived at the swanky high-rise Friday morning. Instagram\/fanocr\/<\/p>\n
Just before 4:40 a.m., he returned to the building lobby and sat down on a couch wearing the same bloodied white shoes.<\/p>\n
He then opened the lobby door for a food delivery driver and asked her to call 911, the courier told police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then called police himself and handed the phone to the delivery driver to speak with the dispatcher, the Herald reported.<\/p>\n
While on the phone with 911, the courier noticed blood on Cremasco-Cicero, who refused to take back the phone when she tried to hand it back.<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero was denied bond in court Saturday where he wore an anti-suicide smock. Local10<\/p>\n
The alleged killer son was arrested and charged with second-degree murder with a weapon.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Turner Guildford Knight Correctional Center and is on an immigration hold, as he was in the US on an investor visa, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cremasco-Cicero appeared in front of a Miami-Dade County judge Saturday morning wearing a green anti-suicide smock and was denied bond, Local10 News<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\nHe is slated to return to court Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The manager of a ritzy Miami steakhouse was nabbed for his mother\u2019s murder after cops found him soaked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30441,4864,1107,10822,28,123,125,124,4538,687,99194,4278],"class_list":["post-391863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-apartments","tag-arrests","tag-courts","tag-deaths","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-murders","tag-restaurants","tag-stabbings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}