Florida authorities made a potential breakthrough Tuesday in their probe of the fatal hit-and-run boating crash that killed the granddaughter of America’s ambassador to Belgium on Saturday afternoon, announcing they’d found the vessel believed to have struck the teenager.
Ella Adler, 15, fell while she was waterskiing in Biscayne Bay, a large lagoon south of Miami, and was plowed over by a stranger’s boat as she waited to be retrieved from the water, the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission said Sunday.
The vessel that struck her sped away from the scene, leaving Adler’s bloodied body floating in the water, supported only by a life jacket, the FWC said. The boat that struck her was described as having a center console, a light blue exterior, a dark blue bottom, and a length somewhere between 30 to 40 feet.
