Alex West, the man convicted of driving his boat over a family on Lake George and killing an 8-year-old girl, will be released from prison. The state parole board voted 2 to 1 to release West during its meeting this month., WNYT reports West was convicted at trial of manslaughter in the July 2016 boating crash that killed little Charlotte McCue and badly injured her mother. West had been drinking and drugging all day on the lake before he ran his boat over the top of the other boat and then kept going without calling 9-1-1.