Charges have been filed against two men in connection to the tragic death of a beautiful 15-year-old ballerina who was fatally struck by a boat while wakeboarding.
Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 79, was charged with two misdemeanors for careless operation of a vessel and Edmund Richard Hartley, 31, has been charged with four misdemeanors for careless operation of a vessel, in relation to the death of Ella Adler.
On May 11, 2024, Adler and another girl were wakeboarding behind a 42-foot Hanse Fjord walk-around near Key Biscayne, just south of Miami, before falling off at different spots, officials said. A dozen people had been on the boat pulling her.
Before the vessel, operated by Hartley, could return to collect her, Adler was hit by another boat, allegedly driven by Alonso, which immediately sped away, officials said.
After several witnesses described the hit-and-run vessel and what they saw, including mentions of 'a lot of blood in the water,' investigators eventually found the boat, a Boston whaler, docked behind Alonso's Coral Gables home.
