2 boat pilots charged after 15-year-old wakeboarder fell into water and was fatally struck

Two men have been charged after a 15-year-old fell while wakeboarding in Florida and was fatally struck by a boat.

As Law&Crime previously reported , Ella Adler was killed while in the water in Biscayne Bay on the afternoon of May 11, 2024. Now, authorities say, Carlos “Bill” Guillermo Alonso, 79, was piloting the vessel that killed young Ella, and Edmund Richard Hartley, 31, had been operating the boat that had been towing Ella before she fell.

“The world lost a star this weekend,” Ella’s family said in a statement through their attorney, Etan Mark, at the time of the girl’s death. “Ella was beautiful and shined brightly. In her 15 years she gave us more light than we could have ever dreamed. While we cope with this unspeakable tragedy, we ask the public to give us our privacy as we mou