Jet Ski Driver Gets Jail, Probation, for Fatally Striking Girl in San Diego

A sign instructs people to stay clear of the water as lifeguards patrol Mission Bay Beach in San Diego on Aug. 20, 2023. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

SAN DIEGO—A young man who fatally struck a paddleboarding 12-year-old girl with a jet ski in Mission Bay last year was sentenced Friday to 230 days in custody and two years of probation.

Arsanyous Refat Ghaly, 20, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for the July 29, 2023, watercraft crash that killed Savannah Peterson.