YK Osiris Confirms He’s Talking With Household About Overlaying Funeral Prices for Teen Who Died at Amusement Park

Jacksonville native YK Osiris has confirmed he’s trying to pay for the funeral of a 14-year-old boy who died in March after falling from a trip at an amusement park in Orlando. He floated the provide final week on Instagram.

Whereas chatting with TMZ at LAX on Tuesday, Osiris revealed he’s in dialogue with the household of Tyre Sampson, who died after falling out of his seat on the FreeFall trip at ICON Park.

“Outdoors of music, I’ve an enormous coronary heart. … I do know [Sampson’s family] was ready on the amusement park to do they factor or no matter, however issues gotta occur faster,” YK mentioned. “So I really feel prefer it was simply a devastating factor for the mother and father, for everyone in his household, so I needed to make it occur. Like, someone should make it occur and within the celeb world, we received an excessive amount of energy and we received an excessive amount of [of] an enormous platform to not assist with issues like that.”

Osiris mentioned he wish to attend Sampson’s funeral if the household approves. “I positively need to be there,” he mentioned. 

Late Tuesday on his Instagram Tales, the artist despatched out a relaxation in peace message for Sampson, exhibiting a photograph of Tyre and including, “I’m going out the best way for u lil bro.”

Just some days after Sampson’s demise, a purported cousin of Tyre going by Shay Johnson launched a petition to completely shut the trip at ICON Park. Shortly after, the household advised police they don’t know Johnson, who was then revealed by authorities to have a special title. Bogus GoFundMe pages have been additionally shut down following the tragic accident.

The household’s legal professional, Bob Hilliard, advised CBS Information that Sampson’s demise “goes to be a problem of a scarcity of supervision and lack of coaching,” calling it a “straight-up negligence case.” In the meantime, famed civil rights legal professional Ben Crump, who represented the household of George Floyd, can be working with Sampson’s family, KMOV studies.