Boy, 14, dies after falling from Florida theme park ride

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A 14-year-old boy has fallen to his death from a ride at an amusement park in Orlando&comma; Florida&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sheriff’s officials and emergency crews responded to a call late on Thursday at Icon Park&comma; which is located in the city’s tourist district along International Drive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Orange County Sheriff John Mina identified the teenager as Tyree Samson&comma; who was visiting central Florida from Missouri with a friend’s family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Detectives investigating the death will look into whether it was intentional or accidental&comma; the sheriff said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It appears to be just a terrible tragedy&comma;” Mr Mina said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We will see moving forward what that results in&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;173101" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-173101" style&equals;"width&colon; 1172px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;03&sol;3F02498D-7D85-4491-866B-7126178C4743&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1172" height&equals;"707" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-173101" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-173101" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">It holds 30 passengers as it rises in the air&comma; rotating around the tower<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Tyree fell from the Orlando Free Fall ride&comma; which opened late last year&comma; and died later in hospital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A video aired by NBC’s Today show on Friday morning appears to show passengers on the ride discussing issues with a seat restraint on Thursday night&period; The ride then began its trek up the tower before someone is seen falling from the ride&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are absolutely saddened and devastated by what happened&comma; and our hearts go out to this young man’s family&comma;” John Stine&comma; sales director with the Slingshot Group which owns the ride&comma; told the Associated Press on Friday morning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Free Fall ride and an adjacent ride&comma; the Sling Shot&comma; have been closed indefinitely&comma; Mr Stine said&period; His company operates the two rides at Icon Park&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are cooperating with all other investigations at this time to get to the bottom of what happened&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added that there had been no issues reported previously with the Free Fall ride&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The ride&comma; 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