Icon Park Broadcasts Everlasting Closure Of FreeFall Experience Following Tyre Sampson’s Deadly Fall

Again in March, tragedy struck at Orlando’s Icon Park after 14-year-old Tyre Sampson suffered a deadly fall from the amusement park’s FreeFall experience. Months later, the theme park has introduced that the experience shall be taken down, per the request of Tyre’s household.

Slingshot CEO Ritchie Armstrong revealed the information in an official assertion on ICON Park’s web site.

We’re devastated by Tyre’s dying. Now we have listened to the desires of Tyre’s household and the group, and have made the choice to take down the FreeFall.”

Armstrong additionally revealed that the corporate plans to create a scholarship in Tyre’s title.

As well as, Orlando Slingshot will honor Tyre and his legacy within the classroom and on the soccer discipline by making a scholarship in his title.”

The assertion continued saying,”Particulars of the scholarship are being developed and additional info shall be shared sooner or later after session with the household of Tye.” Equally, particulars surrounding the timeline for when the experience can be taken down are scare, and reportedly rely on “approvals from all events concerned in addition to regulatory entities.”

Tyre’s dying is a tragedy that we are going to always remember. As the owner, ICON Park welcomes and appreciated Orlando Slingshot’s resolution to take down the experience.”

As we beforehand reported, Tyre Sampson slipped from the restraints of the FreeFall experience on March twenty fourth, and was sadly pronounced lifeless at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Youngsters. The incident garnered nationwide consideration after video of Tyre’s fall began making its rounds on social media.

Following Tyre’s unlucky passing, the FreeFall experience and the Orlando Slingshot have been shut down. Tyre mom Nekia Dodd has repeatedly requested. that the experience be torn down, saying the experience was a “monument to this preventable tragedy.”

The experience’s mere existence is an insult to the reminiscence of my son and makes every say since he was killed much more unimaginable for these of us who lived Tyre day by day of his life.”

An investigation into accident revealed that sensors on the FreeFall have been adjusted to make the experience’s restraints open wider, in the end making the attraction “unsafe,” based on the Florida Division of Agriculture and Shopper Companies. The FDAC additionally discovered that the experience most weight restrict was 287 kilos, and Tyre of 380 kilos on the time.

Tyre’s household has additionally filed a lawsuit towards Orlando Slingshot, ICON Park and the experience’s producers.