{"id":1046646,"date":"2026-09-06T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1046646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:42:28","slug":"manager-of-ritzy-miami-steakhouse-accused-of-stabbing-mom-to-death-inside-luxury-high-rise-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1046646\/","title":{"rendered":"Manager of ritzy Miami steakhouse accused of stabbing mom to death inside luxury high-rise apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The manager of a ritzy Miami steakhouse was nabbed for his mother\u2019s murder after cops found him soaked in blood at his luxury high-rise apartment and her dead inside with multiple stab wounds Friday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Cremasco-Cicero, 36, told cops he acted in self-defense when he allegedly stabbed his mom to death inside his 47th-floor Miami pad, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article317140263.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Herald<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Eduardo Cremasco-Cicero, 36, is accused of knifing his mom to death inside his Miami apartment Friday morning. Miami-Dade Corrections<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero reportedly told officers, \u201cI was defending myself,\u201d before leading them to his apartment on the 47th floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops responded to the ritzy high-rise shortly before 5 a.m. Friday morning.  CBS News Miami<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero allegedly told police he acted in self-defense.  Local10<\/p>\n<p>Cremasco-Cicero\u2019s mom was staying with him while she visited from Mexico, his unidentified wife told police on the phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero\u2019s mother was staying with him while visiting from Mexico, his wife told police.  Instagram\/fanocr\/<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero works as the US operating manager of a high-end Miami steakhouse. Instagram\/fanocr\/<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed he dropped the knife after he exited the elevator.<\/p>\n<p>He then picked up the weapon and got into another elevator to return upstairs, according to the video. <\/p>\n<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero was covered in blood when police arrived at the swanky high-rise Friday morning.  Instagram\/fanocr\/<\/p>\n<p>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<p>He then opened the lobby door for a food delivery driver and asked her to call 911, the courier told police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then called police himself and handed the phone to the delivery driver to speak with the dispatcher, the Herald reported.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero was denied bond in court Saturday where he wore an anti-suicide smock.  Local10<\/p>\n<p>The alleged killer son was arrested and charged with second-degree murder with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Cremasco-Cicero appeared in front of a Miami-Dade County judge Saturday morning wearing a green anti-suicide smock and was denied bond, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/09\/05\/judge-denies-bond-for-man-accused-of-killing-his-mother-in-miamis-brickell-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Local10 News<\/a> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He 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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1046647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[11096,11307,356,5416,723,380,27813,50,988,8626,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":["post-1046646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-apartments","tag-arrests","tag-courts","tag-deaths","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-murders","tag-news","tag-restaurants","tag-stabbings","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-us-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117223446617542894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}