FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Surveillance footage from inside a Fort Lauderdale office tower shows 73-year-old jeweler Anthony D’Amore exiting an elevator and entering his business with another man on Dec. 20. Police said only one of the men would come out alive.
Fort Lauderdale police said that the other man was Nenad Milosevich. They said Milosevich, 56, killed D’Amore at the latter’s office in a glass-covered tower at 6245 N. Federal Highway in the city’s Imperial Point neighborhood — all over a Rolex deal “gone bad.”
Authorities said D’Amore would be reported missing by his wife that night. Three days later, police responding to a welfare check discovered the Pompano Beach man’s body inside the office.
The CCTV footage obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday shows D’Amore, in a light blue shirt, and Milosevich, in a black sweater, looking right at the camera before they enter the first-floor elevator at around 10 p.m. the night of the killing.
They get off on the third floor. Milosevich notices the camera yet again. He isn’t holding anything and follows D’Amore inside his jewelry workshop.
A little more than two and a half hours later, on the morning of Dec. 21, Milosevich exits the suite alone, carrying a bag and a large square item wrapped in a blanket before he takes the elevator down to the first floor and leaves.
Police said he confessed to killing D’Amore and the items he had in his possession were 20 pieces of jewelry and a video recording DVR from inside the workshop. They said he told detectives he later threw the stolen items off a bridge.
Police said Milosevich, described by D’Amore’s wife as a “family friend,” told detectives that he had dinner with D’Amore and they then went to his business because Milosevich “was hoping to get some jewelry for his girlfriend for Christmas.”
But Milosevich, police said, still had outstanding payments to be made on a $20,000 Rolex. He told detectives that he had paid about $16,000 on the watch up until that point.
“The deal for the Rolex had gone bad and (D’Amore) was upping the price because Milosevic was not paying fast enough,” a detective wrote. “(D’Amore) would also not give him other items in exchange for the monies already paid. This caused an argument between them.”
D’Amore had injuries to his neck, back, and head. Police said Milosevich admitted to hitting D’Amore twice in the throat, then “found himself on top” of him on the floor, where he “choked” him.
He was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder.
As of Tuesday, Milosevich — who is also known as Nenad Milosevic — remained held without bond in the BSO Main Jail.