Overview

• Eighteen-year-old Air Force Academy cadet candidate Ava Moore was killed May 25 when a speeding jet ski struck her kayak on Lake Grapevine.
• Twenty-two-year-old Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez was arrested May 27 in Dallas and charged May 29 with second-degree felony manslaughter, carrying a two-to-20-year prison term.
• Gonzalez allegedly fled the crash scene with a passenger before escaping in a car driven by her boyfriend, Maikel Coello Perozo, who now faces misdemeanor hindering apprehension and collision charges.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged detainers against both suspects, who entered the U.S. undocumented in 2023, and will pursue removal after their state court cases conclude.
• Texas law caps a manslaughter conviction at 20 years in prison despite Governor Greg Abbott’s public call for capital punishment in this case.