{"id":392013,"date":"2026-09-06T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:50:21","slug":"what-to-know-about-restaurateur-accused-of-killing-mother-in-brickell-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392013\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about restaurateur accused of killing mother in Brickell \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York man with South Florida ties, accused of fatally stabbing his mother<\/a> at a high-rise apartment building in Brickell, appeared before a judge on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Stefano Cremas-Cocicero, 36, was charged with second-degree murder with a weapon.<\/p>\n

During his court appearance, a judge denied Cremas-Cocicero’s bond. <\/p>\n

He also has a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold.<\/p>\n

The case<\/p>\n

Miami Police said officers on Friday responded to the Solitair Brickell, advertised as a 50-floor luxury apartment building, on Southwest 8th Street at 4:45 a.m. after receiving a call about a woman who appeared to have been stabbed inside an apartment.<\/p>\n

The woman appeared to have been stabbed multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n

During their investigation, detectives took Cremas-Cocicero and a witness to the homicide office, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n

Cremas-Cocicero, the report said, told detectives “I was defending myself.”<\/p>\n

Detectives learned that Cremas-Cocicero and his wife have been listed on the lease agreement since July 2024, and he lives in Miami with an investor visa, the report said.<\/p>\n

When detectives interviewed a witness, the report said, she said she was delivering food at the building, and when she arrived, Cremas-Cocicero opened the lobby door and asked her to help. The witness said Cremas-Cocicero asked her to call 911, and she noticed that he had blood on him.<\/p>\n

Detectives then called Cremas-Cocicero’s wife, who was in France for a wedding, and she told them that his mother was visiting from Mexico, was staying with him and had had dinner plans, the report said.<\/p>\n

Cremas-Cocicero’s wife told detectives that Cremas-Cocicero and his mother were not close since his parents’ divorce, but said she wasn’t aware of any mental illness that Cremas-Cocicero dealt with, the report said. She also said that Cremas-Cocicero was under stress because he was opening a new restaurant in Coconut Grove.<\/p>\n

During a search of the apartment, detectives found several kitchen knives that had blood residue and two shirts that had blood spatter, the report said.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video from inside the building’s lobby, the report said, showed Cremas-Cocicero going into the elevators with his mother and both of them leaving. At one point, Cremas-Cocicero was seen entering the elevator with what appeared to be blood on his clothes and holding a knife.<\/p>\n

He is then seen dropping the knife, picking it up and going into another elevator and going upstairs, the report said. Cremas-Cocicero is then seen entering another elevator with different clothes, leaving the building and walking on Southwest Eighth Street while on his phone.<\/p>\n

Cremas-Cocicero then returns to the building’s lobby, sits down on the couch before talking to the first witness, the report said.<\/p>\n

He was then arrested.<\/p>\n

His mother’s identity was not released. <\/p>\n

Who is Stefano Cremas-Cocicero<\/p>\n

Records show that Cremas-Cocicero is from New York. <\/p>\n

In the arrest report, his wife mentioned that he was feeling stressed due to opening a new restaurant in Coconut Grove.<\/p>\n

According to Florida business records, Cremas-Cocicero is listed as a manager at 1986 Steak House in Coconut Grove.<\/p>\n

Cremas-Cocicero’s attorney refused to comment on the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York man with South Florida ties, accused of fatally stabbing his mother at a high-rise apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-392013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392013","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=392013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}