The family of Tyre Sampson, a 14-year-old boy who plunged to his death from a free-fall tower in Orlando, has been awarded ...

Tyre Sampson, 14, was tragically killed after falling to his death off a freefall tower drop ride at Orlando’s ICON Park.

Tyre Sampson’s family has won their civil lawsuit against FunTimes, the Austrian manufacturer of the FreeFall ride that ...

Now, more than two years later, a jury has held the ride’s manufacturer, Austria-based Funtime Handels, accountable for the accident, awarding Tyre’s family $310 million. According to reports from ...

A Florida jury has awarded $310 million to the family of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who died in 2022 after falling from ...

Jury selection was set to begin this week in a lawsuit against the manufacturers of the FreeFall ride at ICON Park, where ...

The family of Tyre Sampson, a 14-year-old who died after falling from an Orlando, Fla. amusement park ride in 2022, has been ...

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. His size meant a shoulder harness did not lock ...

The family of Tyre Sampson will have to seek an order from an Austrian court to collect the damages, the Associated Press reported. Nekia Dodd and Yarnell Sampson sued both the ride's operators ...

On March 24, 2022, tragedy struck at Orlando’s ICON Park when 14-year-old Tyre Sampson fell to his death from the Orlando FreeFall, one of the world’s tallest freestanding drop towers.

Tyre Sampson’s grieving parents sat inside an Orlando courthouse Thursday as Austrian-based amusement ride manufacturer Funtime Handels was ordered to pay for the teen’s wrongful death.