Texas Game Wardens and local police have arrested a woman in an alleged hit-and-run on a jet ski after striking a kayaker who was killed weeks before she was to join the military.
The Grapevine Police Department and TGW announced Tuesday the arrest of suspected jet skier Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez. She is accused of hitting kayaker Ava Moore, 18, while both were out on Lake Grapevine Sunday, before fleeing the scene with a man.
Police also accused Ms. Gonzalez and the unnamed male suspect of hitting a car while fleeing and subsequently leaving the scene of that accident as well, police said. The woman who was riding as a passenger on the jet ski stayed at the lake.
Ms. Moore was brought ashore following the collision, but died at the scene.
“She didn’t suffer in agony. It’s very tragic, and I extend my deepest condolences to the family. I can’t imagine being the parents of this young girl. But one thing I can say is that she didn’t suffer from the moment I saw her,” Lisa Scrabeck, who checked Ms. Moore’s pulse on shore, told KTVT-TV.
Ms. Moore was just weeks away from basic training to join the U.S. military and was home in Texas visiting her parents for Memorial Day.
“We talked throughout the course of the year that at some point in her career she was going to be a four-star general because she loved it. She made those around her better,” Ke’Sha Blanton, who coached Ms. Moore in basketball at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado, told KDFW-TV.
