Tyre was visiting Orlando with his football team over spring break, his father said. Sampson was an honor roll student and an aspiring football player, his father Yarnell Sampson told CNN. Sheriff’s investigators will determine whether the incident was an accident or intentional, and from an initial investigation, “it appears to be a terrible tragedy,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said.
Details about what led to the fall were not immediately released. Sampson was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, the sheriff’s office said. In video circulating on social media that purportedly shows the incident, a person falls from their seat about five seconds into the ride’s drop down the tower, as the vehicle decelerates before it reaches the ground.ĭeputies were called to ICON Park around 11 p.m. Louis, Missouri, fell from the Orlando FreeFall ride, described by its operators as the world’s tallest freestanding drop tower, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. A 14-year-old boy died after he fell Thursday night from a drop tower amusement ride that recently opened at the Orlando area’s ICON Park entertainment complex, authorities said.