When Jack Elliott boarded a 22-foot boat for a day of drinking and swimming with college friends on a Texas lake, nobody knew how severely it would end.

Elliott, a 19-year-old Texas Christian University freshman from Newport Beach, was eliminated in October 2019 after a girl he was kissing offered him a "spirited little push" that sent him overboard and into the boat's prop.

For background, see: Mystery over Texas boating death of OC teenager lastly unwinds years later

2 of his good friends from TCU are now heading to prison - - not for Elliott's death, but for attempting to conceal the details from authorities, information that took years to fully unravel. Another good friend is going to jail for offering a few of the alcohol for the trip.

On Thursday, May 11, Travis County Presiding Judge Elisabeth A. Earle sentenced Delaney Brennan of Huntington Beach, Elle Weber of Hermosa Beach and Carson Neel of Cedar Park, Texas, to five days each in a Texas lockup as the unfortunate boating trip continued to take its toll.

Prison time, they each got two years probation and 80 hours of community service. They could have been sentenced to up to 30 days in county jail.

The sentencings came just days prior to the offenders were to get their diplomas from TCU.

In court, Elliott's father, Brett, called out those who left his boy for dead in the lake after searching just a few minutes and then covered their functions in the catastrophe.

" 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 wind up - - a convict going to jail," Brett Elliott said." And yet the sad part is you still have absolutely no character and no integrity."

He spoke about how after his kid's death, Brennan, Weber and Neel participated in candlelight vigils, professing to grieve while supposedly attempting to control the legal system.

" All of you stood together arm in arm and took pictures and smiled ... knowing you had actually killed Jack. You stood up there lying and manipulating everybody basking in the sympathy. The reality was exposed," Brett Elliott said.

Jack Elliott's more youthful sibling, Ava, told the offenders that she desired them to finish from college knowing the discomfort they had caused.

" I hope that the guilt catches up with every one of you and takes a little bit of pleasure out of every pleased minute, similar to what grief has actually done to me and my parents," Ava Elliott stated in her victim's statement.

" Considering that Jack is missing out on almost 80 years of his life, the idea of each of you investing 15 to 30 days in prison sounds like the much better end of the offer."

Lawyers for the 3 accuseds did not return telephone messages seeking remark. Misdemeanor charges are still pending for a fourth defendant, Anthony Salazar, who is accused of giving false information to law enforcement officer.

Jack Elliott was hardly seven weeks into his very first year of college on Oct. 14, 2019, when he and some good friends ventured to Lake Travis, outdoors Austin, where Neel's daddy, Billy, ran a personal marina and owned an Axis A22 wakeboarding boat, according to legal records.

The 12 buddies, then teenagers, climbed up onto the boat with snacks, vodka, beer and cans of White Claw difficult seltzer, and headed toward the Devil's Cove party website, music roaring from the vessel's speakers.

They danced on the slippery deck of a moving boat and swam in the waters of the man-made lake. They took turns wakeboarding. And they consumed.

As nightfall descended, Elliott and Brennan were at the front of the boat, flirting and kissing, when she offered him what one witness called a "playful little shove" and he fell under the water. That was the last any of the pals saw of Elliott. Weber was at the wheel of the boat.

They spent no more than five minutes searching for Elliott. Neel delved into the water and inspected the propeller. The others shined the lights from their mobile phones onto the dark lake and called his name. Nothing. So they persuaded themselves there was bit more they could do and headed back to coast.

According to records from a lawsuit filed by Elliott's parents, the group then set a course that steered them toward prison.

Weber called "911," however gave her name as "Elle Macpherson," supposedly unaware that was the name of a supermodel and actress.

And given that boat chauffeurs Neel and Weber had been drinking-- Neel had about 5 beers and Weber 2 White Claws and four swigs of vodka-- another member of the group, Anthony Salazar, was employed to say he had actually been driving the boat. Out of what appeared to be a sense of duty to his buddies, he allegedly went along with the ploy.

Which's the story they apparently provided to Travis County constable's private investigators. They also allegedly informed cops that Elliott had actually done a back flip off the boat and later that he fell while vomiting off the side.

The lies continued even after part of the group satisfied two days later at a Fort Worth hotel and telephoned Brett and Amy Elliott. The teens, now in their early 20s, guaranteed to give the mourning couple honest answers.

They weren't sincere. They said they didn't understand how Elliott fell off the boat and posited that possibly he stood up to align his hair and simply fell.

Police got part of the story out of the teenagers, however the rest didn't come till Elliott's moms and dads sued them and required them to testify under oath. Although they invoked their right not to incriminate themselves, the truth came out.

In her declaration to the court on Thursday, Elliott's mother scolded Brennan, Weber and Neel for repeatedly attempting to hide the fact, making her grief even harder to withstand.

" Time and time once again, every one of you and your moms and dads chose yourselves over the reality and what was right," Amy Elliott told them.

She continued, "Our 19-year-old boy, who had such an appealing future ahead of him, however you - - his ‘ good friends' as you call yourselves - failed him and failed us.

" Some of you have actually commented that you understand Jack is supervising you. How do you think Jack feels about what you all did, or, more significantly, what you did refrain from doing? … … The pain of the loss does not soften with time, it simply becomes more familiar."

In a deposition for the parents' suits, Brennan said she was so troubled that she had Elliott's initials tattooed to her wrist.

" I did that since I wished to always have something to bear in mind him by," she said in her sworn testimony. "When I looked down I wished to keep in mind how much he enjoyed life and it kind of gave me a tip to constantly live my life to the maximum and to do everything in life to basically live up to what he would have done."

In her social networks and to buddies, Delaney proclaimed her suffering.

" I just feel like guilty ... and I do not believe I have actually ever been this sad."

" I was the last person to touch him," she said in a message to a buddy.

The lawsuit was settled privately and in complete confidence.

In the Texas courtroom on Thursday, Brett Elliott said his child - - his forever young child - - in some cases sees in his dreams.

" He's still a little kid ... with shaggy hair ... in some cases laughing or sometimes sobbing ... however always our sweet, gorgeous Jack," Brett Elliott told the court. "On Feb 28th of this year I had a dream and composed it down. Jack said to me, ‘‘ I know you're unfortunate, Dad. I am, too.' "