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New witness leads to felony homicide charge 2 years after boat crash killed Lourdes girl

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Prosecutors re-evaluated the case after a new key witness came forward, sources say.

The new charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $ 10,000 fine.

The Miami Herald has published scores of investigative articles and interviewed key witnesses on the scene immediately after Pino crashed his boat into a concrete channel marker in Biscayne Bay , killing a 17-year-old girl and severely injuring her classmate.

George Pino , 54 , crashed his boat into Channel Marker 15 , the very last marker in the channel in an area known as Cutter Bank .

Lucy Fernandez , Katerina Puig and Isabella Rodriguez , one of the girls, had serious head injuries.

Lucy died the next day at HCA Kendall Hospital .

Pino told investigators that the wake from another, larger boat coming in the opposite direction caused him to lose control of his vessel.