March 17, 2023 - Tyre Sampson plummeted to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park on March 24 – a ride described by its operators as the world’s tallest freestanding drop tower.

December 6, 2024 - Tyre, 14, was visiting ICON theme park in Orlando with his American football team during spring break. After falling from the ride, he was taken to a nearby children's hospital where he died from his injuries.

December 15, 2024 - An Orlando jury awarded Tyre Sampson’s parents a $310 million verdict against Funtime, the Austrian-based manufacturer of the ICON Park ride that Sampson fell from and died, after Funtime did not appear during trial to defend itself.

February 22, 2024 - https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/us/orlando-freefall-tower-dismantled-tyre-sampson/index.html · This article says they manually readjusted the harness to be wider than usual. Continue this thread Continue this thread · tylariousOG • 2y ago · They've removed the entire ride.

December 6, 2024 - A Florida jury has awarded $310 million to the family of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who died in 2022 after falling from the FreeFall ride at ICON Park in Orlando.

December 6, 2024 - 14-year-old Tyre Sampson fell to his death from the 430-foot tall Orlando FreeFall ride​ in March 2022.

March 21, 2025 - Tyre Sampson fell 70 feet to his death on March 24, 2022. A middle school football standout who stood 6 foot, 2 inches tall and weighed 380 pounds, he was visiting Orlando on spring break from the St.

October 6, 2022 - The decision to take down the 430-foot-tall Orlando FreeFall tower and ride at ICON Park outside Orlando was made because of Tyre Sampson’s March 24 death, the operator said in an online statement.

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 20, 2025 - On the left, a memorial site is pictured outside the Orlando Free Fall drop tower ride at ICON Park in Orlando on March 29, 2022. Tyre Sampson, 14, died when he fell from the ride.

December 6, 2024 - Funtime-Handels makes rides that are installed at theme parks around the world. In March 2022 during his spring break, 14-year-old Tyre Sampson was on the Tyre ride at ICON park in Orlando.

March 28, 2022 - A makeshift memorial for Tyre Sampson is viewed outside the Orlando Free Fall ride at the ICON Park entertainment complex, Sunday, March 27, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. Sampson fell to his death while on the ride.

March 15, 2023 - Tyre Sampson, a teen who was visiting Orlando from Missouri, fell from the 430-foot-tall Free Fall at ICON Park on March 24, 2022.

December 6, 2024 - Icon Park, which rented the ride’s space to Orlando Slingshot, the ride’s owner and operator, had already settled with Sampson’s family for an undisclosed amount. “The jury’s decision confirms what we have long argued: Tyre’s death was the result of blatant negligence and a failure to prioritize safety over profits,” the family’s lawyers, Ben Crump and Natalie Jackson, said in a statement.

December 6, 2024 - Tyre Sampson, who was 6ft 2in tall and weighed 27 stone (172kg), plunged about 100ft (30 metres) from the Orlando Free Fall at ICON Park in Florida.

December 5, 2024 - ORLANDO, Fla. — A jury returned a verdict Thursday in the wrongful death lawsuit of 14-year-old Tyre Sampson that totaled more than $300 million.