{"id":226886,"date":"2026-04-10T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:11:07","slug":"friend-honors-biotech-leaders-life-after-miami-beach-high-rise-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226886\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend honors biotech leader\u2019s life after Miami Beach high-rise tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Two days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/09\/man-facing-murder-charge-for-allegedly-throwing-victim-from-25th-floor-of-miami-beach-apartment\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/09\/man-facing-murder-charge-for-allegedly-throwing-victim-from-25th-floor-of-miami-beach-apartment\/\">the arrest<\/a> of a suspect in what police said was a Feb. 15 murder in a Miami Beach high-rise, a man who knew victim Justin Zelin said he wants his friend to be remembered for more than how he lost his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami Beach police arrested Corey Hutterli, 37, of Parkland, on a second-degree murder charge on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He\u2019s accused of killing Zelin, 35, by throwing him off the balcony of his own 25th-floor unit at the Akoya Condominium, located at 6365 Collins Ave. on Mid-Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Zelin could be heard in a struggle with Hutterli in a 911 call moments before his death. The connection between the two remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things where the more answers you get, the more questions you have,\u201d Zelin\u2019s friend Amit Jolly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jolly, speaking to Local 10 News in Hollywood on Friday, said he wants Zelin to \u201cbe memorialized for so much more than just the final moments of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe was yet a big presence in the Jewish community, a big presence in the biotech community,\u201d Jolly said. \u201cWhat he has done in terms of his line of work has saved many lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jolly said the killing left Zelin\u2019s family heartbroken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOn the night of the funeral the rabbi asked the father to write some words about his son and he said, \u2018I don\u2019t have the words for my son, because I don\u2019t believe my son is dead,\u2019\u201d Jolly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jolly shared photos of Zelin with Local 10 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThese final moments were very painful,\u201d Jolly said. \u201cI think it\u2019s very important to have Justin be remembered for something so much more than just those final moments, just as (with) anyone when they pass away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hutterli, meanwhile, remained held without bond at Miami-Dade County\u2019s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His attorney argued during a court appearance Thursday morning that the case against Hutterli is purely circumstantial.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Two days after the arrest of a suspect in what police said was a Feb.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-226886","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\/226886","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=226886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}