told WSVN.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe instantly called the cops, let them know everything. I yelled for him to float before the cops came, and he floated. He was, like, floating there with his dad, holding him,\u201d Enzo Avelino said. \u201cThe dad was unconscious when they got him and brought him back.\u201d<\/p>\n
A multi-motor vessel suspected in the fatal hit-and-run was seen cruising away moments after the collision. NBCMiami<\/p>\n
The suspected boat was last seen traveling north from Biscayne Bay between 7:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. NBCMiami<\/p>\n
Both Veglia and his son were taken to a local hospital, where the businessman was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The suspected boat was last seen traveling north from Biscayne Bay between 7:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., the outlet reported.<\/p>\n
Police have not identified the operator of the boat and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
The father-son duo was on their 7-foot dinghy in a channel off Miami Beach when the larger boat struck them, ejecting the two into the waters. Instagram\/Davide Veglia<\/p>\n
Veglia\u2019s best friend Joao Moraes paid tribute to the fallen executive after the tragedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t stand God took this man, too young,\u201d Moraes told NBC 6. \u201cI lost my best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDavide, my friend, the best friend, I miss in my life, great passion with soccer, with everything,\u201d Moraes said, revealing the two had spoken earlier in the day and planned to have lunch on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in shock. I sat down all day and cried because I lost the best person in my life,\u201d Moraes added.<\/p>\n
Veglia founded the medical communications firm in 1995 while he was a 25-year-old international student.<\/p>\n
The company has offices in Miami, San Francisco, Rome and Belgrade, according to his LinkedIn page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida CEO was killed in a hit-and-run boat crash in front of his teenage son when an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9271,28,30,29,5154,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-207958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-boat-crashes","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-hit-and-run","13":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207958","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=207958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}