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Signal Mountain man and friend killed in Texas jet-ski crash

Harrison Smith, right, stands with Dr. Victor Boschini, chancellor of Texas Christian University, and friend Connor Vaccaro, left.
Harrison Smith, right, stands with Dr. Victor Boschini, chancellor of Texas Christian University, and friend Connor Vaccaro, left. Harrison Smith, right, stands with Dr. Victor Boschini, chancellor of Texas Christian University, and friend Connor Vaccaro, left.

By Judy Walton 3 min read

A 22-year-old Signal Mountain man died in a jet-ski crash Saturday outside of Fort Worth, Texas, a local newspaper reported.

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram said Harrison Stokes Smith and a friend were jet-skiing when the craft collided with a dock. Smith and Tanner Poeschel, 22, of Fort Worth, were killed.

Poeschel was a recent graduate of the University of Missouri. Smith was a student at Texas Christian University and was scheduled to graduate in December with a degree in economics, he told the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce in an interview earlier this year. He was interning with the group.

Harrison Smith is the son of Stokes and Kimberly Smith, of Signal Mountain.

His good friend and former TCU roommate, Connor Vaccaro, said by telephone Sunday from Fort Worth that Harrison had a gift for joy and a passion for helping people around him make the most of their lives.