Tyre Sampson's Family Calls for Removal of Icon Park Ride
Local News Staff 
The parents of Tyre Sampson, the 14-year-old who died after falling off the Orlando Free Fall, spoke out Tuesday after their lawyers filed a lawsuit against ICON Park and the Slingshot Group, with his mother calling for the ride to be taken down.
“Just get rid of it altogether. It’s just too big of a risk,” Nekia Dodd told reporters in St. Louis, joined by her lawyer Michael Haggard. Dodd also appeared on Good Morning America the same morning, the first time she has spoken out about her son’s death.
The lawsuit — filed Monday by Sampson’s lawyers, civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Bob Hilliard — comes about a month after Tyre fell to his death in what the suit alleges was a ride made unsafe due to design defects and a lack of seatbelts.
The Orlando Free Fall was designed to drop riders from 430 feet high at up to 75 mph, making it the tallest drop tower in the world.
