The family of the 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from an Orlando amusement park ride is calling for the attraction to be permanently shut down.
Tyre Sampson died after he“I would like this ride to be taken down,” Tyre’s cousin Shay Johnson said,The drop tower will remain closed as authorities investigate the fatal fall, but the family has launched a new petition calling for the closure to go a step further.
A crowd gathered outside Orlando’s Icon Park throughout the day and into the evening on Saturday to honor the 14-year old killed on the ICON Park amusement ride.Stephen M. Dowell /Orlando Sentinel via AP “We have kids ourselves, so this is someone’s child when it comes down to it. And any type of sympathetic feeling that you have as a human being you will try to come down here,” Edwards said, Fox 35 reported.
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