{"id":300714,"date":"2026-06-09T00:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:33:15","slug":"father-testifies-about-sons-final-call-as-suspect-seeks-bond-in-miami-beach-high-rise-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300714\/","title":{"rendered":"Father testifies about son\u2019s final call as suspect seeks bond in Miami Beach high-rise murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0June 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM<\/p>\n

MIAMI \u2014 The suspect accused of throwing a man off a 25th floor balcony<\/a> was back in court on Monday as he seeks to get bond.<\/p>\n

Shackled while wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, Corey Hutterli, 37, of Parkland, sat in a Miami-Dade County courtroom flanked by attorneys.<\/p>\n

He is accused of pushing Justin Zelin, 35, off a 25th-story balcony at the Akoya Condominium, located at 6365 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach on Feb. 15. <\/p>\n

Surveillance video released by authorities<\/a> showed the moment Zelin hit the ground, and how people quickly reacted and tried to help him. <\/p>\n

Zelin\u2019s father testified on Monday, speaking about his final phone call with his son. <\/p>\n

\u201cA few seconds went by, he said, \u2018Help, help, help,\u2019 and then the phone got disconnected and then I called back and I called back numerous times,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Police said Zelin called 911 and the dispatcher reportedly heard him telling Hutterli to get out of his apartment before what sounded like a struggle that led to Zelin plunging to the ground below. <\/p>\n

Hutterli\u2019s defense team has argued there was no eyewitness to any alleged act before Zelin\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n

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\"JanineJanine Stanwood<\/p>\n

Janine Stanwood is an Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor. She joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM MIAMI \u2014 The suspect accused of throwing a man off a 25th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-300714","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\/300714","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=300714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}