Comment correction An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect location for Boca Chita Key. Located in the northern Keys on Biscayne Bay. The article has been corrected. A Miami high school senior was killed and 10 others were injured after a boat collided Sunday in the Florida Keys. Lucy Fernandez, 17, was on a boat with 13 other people when the boat crashed at about 6:45 p.m. near Boca Chita Key, Miami-Dade fire officials said, on Biscayne Bay. Eleven people, including Fernandez, were injured. Four were injured and airlifted to hospital. Fernandez, a student at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy in Miami, died from her injuries, the school said Monday. “Known for her smile, bigger than her bubbly personality and signature laugh, Lucy was a joy to all who knew her and a shining light in our school,” the all-girls Catholic high school wrote on Facebook. “The hundreds of people who joined us in the grotto tonight to pray for her soul’s repose are a testament to her beautiful legacy of faith, love and brotherhood.” The US Coast Guard said the boat capsized after hitting a canal, the Miami Herald reported. Miami-Dade police arrived at the crash site first and pulled people — some critically injured — out of the water, Miami-Dade’s rescue chief said in a video provided by the fire rescue service. Police brought them to Elliott Key Island, where some were airlifted. Firefighters then helped police pull other people from the water, evaluated them and transported some to hospitals, Garrandes said. Several people wrapped in white blankets emerged from a fireboat docked at Black Point Marina in Homestead, Fla., where first responders evaluated patients, video provided by the Fire Rescue Department showed. The condition of the 10 injured was unclear Tuesday. Sister Carmen T. Fernández, president of Our Lady of Lourdes, wrote in a letter to community members Monday that two of the injured were also seniors at the school, the Herald reported. Students from Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami were also injured, Miami-based television station WSVN reported. That school held a rosary prayer service on Monday night. As the sun rose Tuesday, dozens of Lourdes students, dressed in their school uniforms, gathered along the shore to pay their respects to Fernandez, according to WSVN. Students from Lourdes and other local schools also gathered Monday night for a vigil. “For Lucy, her faith was a foundation, and so I think in a time of so much sadness and so much confusion and so much loss, I think the only thing we know how to do or what to do is to come together in prayer,” she said. on WSVN Lourdes theology professor Alexandra Diaz.
