Another man told a 911 dispatcher that the teen had no pulse. I seen him hit the ground.'Ī woman who called 911 told a dispatcher that Sampson was facedown, wasn´t responsive and appeared to have broken his arms and legs. 'It was the biggest smack I ever heard in my life. 'Bam, went straight through his chair and dropped,' the man said on the 911 call. Sampson was taken to a hospital, where he died, sheriff's officials said.Ī man who witnessed what happened told a 911 dispatcher that Sampson seemed to slip out of his seat when the ride braked as it approached the bottom. 'Everyone was just panicking and screaming,' park employee Montrey Williams told FOX 35 Orlando. 'At first we thought it was a piece of the ride or whatever until we got a little closer and it was a person laying on the ground. The teen was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries, Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. In 2020, a park employee died while working on the StarFlyer ride. It is the second accident at the park in two years. It's unclear what the minimum height restriction for the ride is or how he could have fallen out of his harness. Park employees say they initially thought his body was a piece of the ride that had broken off until they saw the boy lying on the ground. 'You will be truly missed son,' she said. His step-mother Wendy said: 'Tyre was a respectful gentle giant. Tyre's family paid tribute to him on social media as a 'gentle giant'. He insisted that he had and she asked again: 'Are you sure?' The boy fell out of his seat and landed on the ground soon afterwards to the horror of the other riders.Īfter they were back on the ground, video shows a different park worker run over to the ride attendant and ask: 'You didn't check it!?' The ride then went up in the air and halted for around 10 seconds before dropping. One woman was worried about the fact there was nothing more to keep them in the seats as the ride descended and asked if there was a seatbelt to clip them in. 'There ain't no seatbelts,' the ride attendant replied. The only thing stopping them from falling out of their seats were plastic, pull-down harnesses which are supposed to buckle in place, in between riders' legs. Tyre and the rest of the group had been told moments earlier that there were no seatbelts on the ride. We will see moving forward what that results in.' At a press conference on Friday, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said: 'It appears to be just a terrible tragedy. The ride is pictured on Friday, the day after the accidentĪn investigation into the park is now underway. 'For him to say something like that, he must have felt something.' And he was explaining to his friends, next to him, 'I don't know man, if I don't make it down, safely, can you please tell my mamma and daddy that I love them,'' said Sampson. The grieving father said that Tyre began to panic and shared a chilling premonition with his two best friends, seated next to him on the ride. And he was like 'what's going on?'' Samson told WOFL-TV. He was like 'this thing is moving,' you know what I'm saying. 'When the ride took off, that's when he was feeling uncomfortable. Louis, died after slipping out of his seat on the 430-foot Orlando Free Fall ride at the ICON Park at around 11pm on Thursday.Īs photos and new 911 call audio suggest that Tyre's safety harness may not have been properly secured, his father Yarnell Sampson says that the teen knew something was wrong as soon as the ride began to ascend. Teenager Tyre Sampson, who was on a football program trip from St. The father of the 14-year-old boy who died falling from a theme park ride in Orlando has said that the boy believed something was wrong with his safety harness during the ride and asked his friend sitting next to him to tell his parents that he loved them.
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