March 16, 2023 - ... The mother of a Missouri teen who died last year after slipping off a free-fall ride at a Florida amusement park has reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, NBC News reports.

December 7, 2024 - ORLANDO, Fla. - Tyre Sampson’s family has won their civil lawsuit against FunTimes, the Austrian manufacturer of the FreeFall ride that killed the 14-year-old boy.

March 16, 2023 - — Standing in front of the Orlando ... his life nearly a year ago, Nekia Dodd and her lawyer announced Wednesday they had reached a settlement with ride owner Orlando Slingshot and landlord ICON Park in the civil lawsuit over Tyre’s ...

March 15, 2023 - Standing in front of the Orlando ... his life nearly a year ago, Nekia Dodd and her lawyer announced Wednesday they had reached a settlement with ride owner Orlando Slingshot and landlord ICON Park in the civil lawsuit over Tyre’s ...

December 7, 2024 - ... An Orange County jury awarded a $310 million verdict Thursday to the family of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death from an Orlando attraction free-fall ride in 2022. Tyre Sampson, a promising middle school football player from Missouri, ...

March 17, 2023 - The family of a 14-year-old boy who fell to his death at an Orlando theme park has settled a wrongful death suit.

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December 5, 2024 - Orlando, FL – December 5, 2024 ... attraction at ICON Park on March 24, 2022. The family previously reached a settlement with both ICON park and the company that operated the ride....

December 6, 2024 - The parents of a 14-year-old Missouri boy who fell to his death from a Florida amusement park ride has won a $310 million verdict against the attraction's Austrian builder.

December 6, 2024 - ORLANDO, Fla. — The jury came back just after 5:00 p.m. and awarded Tyre Sampson’s family more than $300 million in the civil lawsuit over the teen’s death in 2022.

June 28, 2025 - Credit: Icon Park/Instagram The family of a Missouri teen who fell to his death on an Orlando amusement park ride has been awarded a $310 million verdict to be paid by the ride’s manufacturer. Fourteen-year-old student and football player Tyre Sampson died from injuries sustained after falling from his seat on the Orlando Free Fall tower ride, formerly sited at Icon Park, in March of 2022. According to the lawsuit, Sampson weighed 383 pounds and exceeded the ride’s weight limit by nearly 100 pounds.

July 8, 2022 - TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The owners of ICON Park and affiliated companies filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the family of Tyre Sampson for liabilities leading to his death.

March 17, 2025 - On December 6, 2024, the Orange County verdict grants $155 million each to Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson. After a shoulder harness failed, their 14-year-old son plunged 70 feet from the Orlando Free Fall attraction.

April 26, 2022 - During the news conference, Sampson said that he would like to see the ride to come down. Referring to his son's memorial, he said, "It's getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and hopefully it gets so big to the point that they tear that ride down." The 60-plus page lawsuit filed in Orange County alleges negligence against ICON Park, the Slingshot Group and its associated companies, the manufacturers, and the contractors. Crump claimed the the reason Tyre was killed is because corporations put profit over safety and said amusement parks that advertise to children should have an obligation to protect children.

December 6, 2024 - The family previously agreed to an undisclosed settlement with Icon Park and ride owner Eagle Drop Slingshot, which were also defendants in their wrongful death lawsuit, the outlet said.