Speed boat owner who ‘hit and killed’ ballerina Ella Adler, 15, is identified as new details of horror crash emerge

The pilot of the boat that struck and killed 15-year-old Miami ballerina Ella Riley Adler has been identified.

Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 78, was the only person on his boat at the time of the tragic crash, according to an incident report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The boat was taken away by FWC officers on Tuesday after it was discovered outside Alonso’s $4 million home in Coral Gables, Miami Herald reported.

Alonso is believed to be cooperating with police.

The report showed that 15-year-old Adler was on a 40-foot boat. She was there with thirteen other people, including her teenage friends who were celebrating a friend’s birthday, NBC Miami reported.

Adler, 15, was on a boat with 13 other people. She was reportedly celebrating

Before the terrifying collision, Adler and another girl were towed, with one riding a wakeboard and the other riding a wakeboard.

The girls then fell off the boards at different times and locations, even though they were both in the water at the same time.

At that point, Alonso, heading west, “struck the female wakeboarder who was in the water” with his Boston Whaler boat, the report said. Adler later died from her injuries.

The FWC added that Alonso’s boat is a center console boat with a light blue hull, consistent with initial eyewitness accounts collected by authorities.

Witnesses also said that after the light blue ship drove away, there was “a lot of blood in the water.”

The Coral Gables home where the speedboat was found

According to authorities, the boat was involved in the death of 15-year-old Ella Adler on Saturday

According to a maritime lawyer who spoke to NBC6 Miami, there is no way the person who hit Adler was unaware of the impact.

‘I find that extremely hard to believe because hitting a person is a large object. You would definitely feel that, especially if you were driving at any speed,” Michael Winkleman said.

The report does not say whether Alonso, the suspect in Adler’s death, will be charged, according to NBC Miami. It’s also unclear if alcohol was a factor in the crash, as the report marks it as “unknown.”

Adler, who was described by loved ones as a dazzling presence, was buried Monday morning at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach.

She was a high-achieving student, a member of her school’s Jewish Student Association and had a “great group of friends,” according to her obituary.

Matthew Adler, Adler’s father, shared his heartbreaking message to his daughter at her funeral.

“You were taken from us far too soon and the world has been robbed of everything you could have achieved. But you will always be here with us and your friends and family will carry your energy and spirit with them forever,” he wrote in a letter read by Rabbi Jonathan Berkun.

After Adler’s funeral service in Miami on Monday, mourners support each other as they leave Temple Beth Sholom

At the service, Ella was referred to as a “star.”

She was also a talented ballerina, appeared in more than 100 performances of the Nutcracker with the Miami City Ballet.

After the boat that struck Adler was found by police, her family released a new statement Tuesday thanking authorities for their hard work on the case.

‘The world lost a star this weekend. Ella was beautiful and shone brightly. In her fifteen years she has given us more light than we could ever have imagined,” the family said.

“As we cope with this unspeakable tragedy, we ask the public to please grant us our privacy as we grieve.”

Ella is survived by her parents, Amanda and Matthew, along with her siblings Jaden and Adalynn. She was also the great-granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the granddaughter of Michael Adler, the American ambassador to Belgium.

The family confirmed that First Lady Jill Biden visited the Adler family after the funeral in the Jewish mourning tradition known as Shiva, which lasts seven days.

“We are honored that the First Lady made a Shiva call to our family during this time of immense pain. We have been touched by their support and love and are proud to call the President and First Lady our friends for more than 40 years,” the family said.