Gables man was driving boat that struck and killed high school student, FWC report says

The man who owns the home where investigators found a boat that they suspect struck and killed a 15-year-old Ransom Everglades student was behind the wheel at the time of the crash, according to a report released Wednesday by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 78, owns the Coral Gables home at 11025 Tanya St. where the boat was docked behind when FWC agents seized the boat Tuesday afternoon. He was the only occupant in the boat at the time of the hit-and-run crash, the report said.

The report states that a 42-foot 2017 Hanse Fjord driven by 30-year-old Edmund Richard was towing two girls behind the boat around 4 p.m. Saturday about a mile west of Mashta Point off Key Biscayne. One of the girls was on a wakeboard and another was on a wake surfboard. The girls fell off their boards at different times and in different locations, and both were in the water simultaneously, the report said.

The wake boarder was Ella Riley Adler, a 15-year-old freshman at Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove. She died from her injuries.

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