A skateboarding stunt gone wrong ends in a Brevard County girl's death. Now, family and friends are mourning the loss of the 17-year-old.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Haley Hodge of Satellite Beach was critically hurt when she fell off a skateboard being pulled by a Toyota Celica. Hodge was riding at the intersection of Tropical Trail and Tropical Island Lane in Merritt Island Saturday night.

She was transported to Holmes Regional Medical Center, in Melbourne, and then to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, where she died Tuesday.

FHP officials said they weren't initially notified of the crash but found out some details from the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. Investigators only found out the skateboard was being pulled by a car after interviewing the driver of the car, 19-year-old Zachary Byrnes, and the other passengers.

Investigators tell us everyone involved is cooperating. FHP said charges are pending against Byrnes.

What is skitching?

Hodge was hurt while performing a skateboarding stunt known as skitching. There are instructions online for how to skitch on everything from a truck to a bicycle and even skitching in the snow. There are 10,600 skitching videos on YouTube.

But there are also reports of deaths.

A Minnesota skateboarder died just last week while skitching in St. Paul.

The nonprofit advocacy group Skaters for Public Skateparks said five of the 21 skateboarding deaths last year were people who were skitching.

Grief counselors at Satellite High School

Friends of 17-year-old Haley Hodge said she was always smiling.

She worked as a cashier at a Satellite Beach Publix, just yards away from where she went to the high school.

The store is where one parent, whose son knew Hodge well, would see her often.

"I knew her from being a cashier. Everybody who knew her loved her," Loretta Clemens Orihuela said.

Grief counselors have been at Satellite High since earlier in the week.

Hundreds showed up Tuesday at a makeshift vigil for Hodge held at Pelican Beach Park.

"She was effervescent. She was wonderful," Clemens Orihuela said.

"It's shocking. None of us ever thought it would happen to her," said classmate Savannah Derrick.

A memorial service is being held this weekend.

The services for Haley Hodge will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Trinity Wellsprings Church on South Patrick Drive.