A 31-year-old Connecticut man appeared in court Monday charged with the gruesome stabbing death of his elderly father over the weekend.
Steven James Uricchio was ordered held on a $1.5 million bond and did not enter a plea during the court hearing, the News-Times reported.
According to a police report, Ridgefield Police said Uricchio himself called 911 early Saturday morning and said that he’d hurt his 83-year-old father, Marc Uricchio. When officers arrived, they found the younger man wearing a t-shirt and boxer shorts with his hands in the air. They ordered him to walk forward and lie down, and they checked him for weapons.
The report says they found him sweating profusely with what appeared to be blood on his hands. When they asked him what he did to his father, Uricchio replied, “I murdered him. Really, really badly,” the report says.
Officers entered the hoe anf ollowed drops of blood upstairs, where they found a bloody knife. Marc Uricchio was on the floor in a bedroom, the report says. Police said his groin, face, and abdomen were mutilated and internal organs were found outside his body.
Steven Uricchio was taken to police headquarters, but several hours later he reported having stomach trouble because he’d taken a quarter bottle of Advil before calling police. He was taken to Danbury Hospital, where he was handcuffed to a bed, while he was evaluated. He was brought back to jail after he was released from the hospital.
In court on Monday, Uricchio entered the court and slumped over the defense table until the judge and court marshals convinced him to stand.
His attorney, Willie Dow, requested a suicide watch be continued and Judge Thomas Saadi ordered a competency examination.
Uricchio is due in court again on September 4.
