THREE students have been jailed for five days after "covering up" details around the death of their friend Jack Elliott.
The Texas Christian University freshman was found in Lake Travis, near Austin, Texas, 10 days after he went overboard in October 2019.
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A group of 12 teenagers had been drinking while on the boat for the day.
In the evening, Delaney Brennan allegedly gave Elliott a "playful little shove" while the pair were kissing, which sent him overboard.
However, this was only discovered after a wrongful death lawsuit was filed by Jack's family.
While the lawsuit was settled privately in 2021, a jury determined that some of those involved would go to trial and face criminal charges.
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After Elliott was shoved overboard, he was "struck by the propeller multiple times and was killed," a report from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department stated.
Now Judge Elisabeth A Earle has sent two of Elliott's friends to jail for keeping critical details from the police.
Another has also been sentenced for providing the group with alcohol.
Brennan, Elliott's girlfriend, was sentenced on Thursday to five days in a Texas lockup along with Carson Neel and Elle Weber.
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Weber and Brennan pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor of making false reports to the police.
Meanwhile, Neel pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor of providing alcohol to a minor.
The three students will also have two years of probation and 80 hours of community service.
Elliott's family spoke after the ruling in which the trio could have been sentenced to up to 30 days in county jail.
His father told them: "You did the wrong things over and over, and you lied over and over and your parents supported the lies.
"Now, here in this courthouse, is where you end up - a convict going to jail.
"And yet the sad part is you still have zero character and zero integrity."
According to records from a lawsuit filed by Elliott's parents, the group on the boat panicked after the freshmen went missing and planned to cover up elements of the incident.
Weber, who was driving the boat at the time, called 911 but allegedly gave her name as "Elle Macpherson," supposedly unaware that it was the name of an actress and model.
The group dumped the alcohol overboard before returning to the marina and named Anthony Salazar, the only member of the group who had not been drinking, as the boat driver.
Salazar agreed to go along with the story and they also allegedly told police that Elliott was messing around and did a backflip off the boat.
This story then changed to that the 19-year-old was throwing up over the side and fell in.
It was only when Elliott's family sued the teenagers, now in their 20s, that the truth came out when they had to testify under oath.
The report from Texas Parks and Wildlife stated: "Jack Elliott was pushed by Delaney Brennan from the front of a wakeboard boat … operated by Elle Weber under the supervision of Carson Neel."
Game warden Ben Echelson continued: Jack Elliott was struck by the propeller multiple times and was killed … the alcohol on board was thrown overboard.
"False statements were given to the officers responding to the accident concerning the events preceding the push and the manner in which Jack Elliott fell into the water."
Delaney had given Jack a "playful little shove," according to Weber, who gave sworn testimony of the incident obtained by the Daily Mail.
"'I was scared and in shock about what happened," Weber said.
"I wish it had not happened and I wish I'd told police everything the first time."
Amid the struggle to find out the truth, Elliott's father wrote on his son's Facebook memorial: "My heart is broken into a million pieces.
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"But, you give me more and more strength to keep pushing forward and fighting for TRUTH and ACCOUNTABILITY. I won't stop. You deserve it."
