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Father of teen who fell from ride wants answers: 'This should never happen'

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ORLANDO, Fla. - A father wants to know why his child died while visiting an Orlando amusement ride. Yarnell Sampson said his 14-year-old son, Tyre, was visiting Orlando from St.

Louis through a football program. He just wanted the kids to have fun and never expected this tragedy to occur.Tyre tragically fell to his death while on the Orlando Free Fall drop tower at Orlando's ICON Park on Thursday night. "He was panicking when he was going up," Sampson says his son was on the Orlando Free Fall ride at ICON Park with two of his best friends. "When the ride took off, that’s when he was feeling uncomfortable.

He was like, ‘What’s going on?’ That’s when he started freaking out, and he was explaining to his friend next to him, ‘I don’t know man.

If I don’t make it down, please tell my Mom and Daddy I love them.’ For him to say something like that, he must have felt something."RELATED: Teen dies after fall from drop tower ride at Orlando's ICON PARK, authorities sayHe said his son was 6 feet, 5 inches tall, and weighed 340 pounds. "This one particular ride said, ‘We can take you, come on!

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