Teen who fell to his death from 430-foot Orlando drop tower
‘If I don’t make it down tell my mom and dad I love them’: Boy, 14, who fell to his death from 430-foot Orlando drop tower told friends he was worried about safety harness during the ride, says his father
- Tyre Sampson, 14, died on Thursday night falling from a ride at Orlando’s ICON theme park in Florida
- His father says that Tyre knew something was wrong and was ‘freaking out’ on the way up the ride
- ‘If I don’t make it down tell — Please tell my mama and daddy I love them,’ Tyre told friend sitting next to him
- Just after the tragic incident, a 911 caller claimed that theme park staff didn’t properly ‘secure the seatbelt’
- Images taken just before the ride also appear to show Tyre’s harness not properly buckled
- The St. Louis teen was visiting Orlando with his football program and sitting next to two of his best friends
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.
Teenager Tyre Sampson, who was on a football program trip from St. 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.
