Orlando Sentinel
The Missouri father of the 14-year-old boy who died whereas on an amusement park trip in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday stated his son knew he was in peril—and he desires to ensure no different baby seems like that once more.
“He was panicking when he was going up,” Yarnell Sampson, the dad of Tyre Sampson, informed WOFL. “He was explaining to his pal subsequent to him, ‘I don’t know man. If I don’t make it down, please inform my Mother and Daddy I really like them.’ For him to say one thing like that, he will need to have felt one thing.”
The Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating Tyre Sampson’s loss of life after he fell from the 430-foot drop tower Thursday. Sampson retained Ben Crump, well-known for his civil rights and private damage claims, who stated a enjoyable time at a park “shouldn't have led to tragedy.”
Sampson stated the trip was the one one who supplied to take his 6-foot-5-inch, 340-pound son, one thing he discovered suspicious.
"This one specific trip stated, ‘We will take you, come on! Get on!’” he stated. “Nobody else allowed him to get on the trip, so I’m questioning what occurred between every now and then that made them say, ‘Come on, get this trip!’”
Sampson described his son as a star soccer participant and honor roll scholar. Tyre, a St. Louis native, was on the town with pals by means of his soccer program and had simply come off a stellar season. He stated his son had the NFL in sights for his future.
“He was a crew participant. He was the kind of younger man that’d take the shirt off his again and provides it to you,” Sampson stated.
Now he desires solutions as to why that younger crew participant with a brilliant future was killed.
“This could by no means occur to anybody else’s baby ever once more,” Sampson stated. “If I've something to do with this, it won't occur ever once more.”