ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried held a news conference in Orlando on Friday to discuss the state’s investigation of a teen’s death on a free-fall ride last week.
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Tyre Sampson, 14, died after he fell from the Orlando FreeFall ride at ICON Park.
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Fried said state leaders are not going to jump to any conclusions about how Sampson died until their investigation is complete.
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Fried said the state has hired a team of forensic engineers from Quest Engineering and Failure Analysis.
The engineers are experts who previously worked with her office during the Sandblaster accident in Daytona Beach in 2018.
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Fried said that based on those findings, state leaders will decide if they need to make changes to the rules under their existing authorities.
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“We are pulling back lots of layers here and we are not going to jump to any conclusions until the facts are known and information is provided to us, because that would not be fair to the family,” Fried said.
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State Rep. Geraldine Thompson was also at the news conference and said she is working on legislation to address any problems identified and will call it the Tyre Sampson bill.
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