Background: News footage showcases Grapevine Lake in Grapevine, Texas, where a tragic incident occurred (KDFW). Left inset: Ava Moore from the United States Air Force Academy. Right insets, top to bottom: Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez, Maikel Coello Perozo (Grapevine Police Department).
A Texas woman who had just graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy had her future cut short when the kayak she was riding was struck from behind.
On Sunday, 18-year-old Ava Moore lost her life while kayaking on Grapevine Lake near Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. According to arrest records obtained by NBC affiliate KXAS, witnesses reported that 21-year-old Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez was riding a jet ski recklessly on the same lake, leading to a collision with one of two kayakers near the shore. After realizing her jet ski had struck and injured Moore, Gonzalez allegedly fled the scene.
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Fox affiliate KDFW also acquired the arrest records and noted that Ava Moore and the woman with her on the kayak were trying to paddle away from Gonzalez as she operated the jet ski before the unfortunate collision occurred.
Following the collision, Moore was pulled from the water to receive medical attention at the scene and was put in an ambulance. She was pronounced dead at 5:59 p.m., before she arrived at the hospital.
Gonzalez was photographed at the scene before she got into a Toyota Corolla that was being driven by Maikel Coello Perozo, 21, who allegedly hit two other vehicles as he drove away.
Both Gonzalez and Perozo were arrested on Tuesday after law enforcement officials surrounded their home in Dallas and coaxed them out. According to a press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, both Venezuelan nationals were in the country illegally.
Gonzalez was charged with second-degree manslaughter. Perozo was charged with an accident involving a collision; KDFW reported that additional charges are expected.
