NACOGDOCHES, Texas — A 19-year-old has been arrested after allegedly striking a 10-year-old while riding a jet ski on Lake Nacogdoches and leaving the scene.
According to Nacogdoches County Game Warden Randy Stovall, officials arrested Michael James Dean Ries while he was hiding in the woods behind his Central Heights-area home Thursday evening.
Judicial records show Ries was booked into the Nacogdoches County Jail where he is being held without bond.
Stovall tells CBS19, the child is still in the hospital, but is stable at this time.
According to the Nacogdoches Police Department, just after 7 p.m., on Tuesday, May 6, officials were called to the scene of a boating accident involving a child on the west side of Lake Nacogdoches.
The child was taken to a Nacogdoches hospital before being transferred to a medical center in Fort Worth.
During the course of the investigation by the Texas Game Wardens and area law enforcement, officials say they determined Ries, while riding a jet ski, struck the child near the bank and then left the scene. Authorities later located the abandoned jet ski on the west side of the lake.
The investigation is ongoing.