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Miami Beach Senior Living Surveillance Video Shows Tenant Stabbing Property Manager After Inspection Dispute

Newly released building footage corroborates police findings that the attack followed a dispute over a failed unit inspection.

Overview

  • Video published on Sept. 19 shows the moments before and during the Aug. 4 attack inside Rebecca Towers in Miami Beach.
  • The victim, identified as property manager Amelia Sola Ortiz, was hospitalized at Ryder Trauma Center and is now recovering at home.
  • Police say the confrontation occurred outside the suspect’s 10th-floor apartment after he was informed of a failed inspection.
  • The suspect, named by police as John Gula, was arrested at the scene and is charged with attempted second-degree murder.
  • A resident, Maria del Carmen Alonso, pulled the wounded manager into her apartment for safety, and police say the suspect invoked his Fifth Amendment right after his arrest.