A GoFundMe page has been set up to help a Kansas lawmaker’s family cover funeral expenses for a 10-year-old son who died at a water park in Kansas City.
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Witnesses said Caleb Schwab, the son of a Kansas politician, was decapitated when he flew off the slide and hit a safety net on the 168-foot-tall Verruckt ride at Schlitterbahn Waterpark.
That’s when Friedrichsen’s boyfriend, Josh Foster, spotted the first responders and saw them cover the 10-year-old’s body. He was riding the raft with two adult women, one of whom suffered a broken jaw and the other a broken bone in her face.
He was riding with two women on a raft, Kansas City police said in a statement.
The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department released new information on the death investigation at Schlitterbahn Water Park.
“I’m really having a tough time with it”.
Investigators are treating the death as a “civil matter” a police spokesman revealed while the Wyandotte County coroner’s office began a post-mortem examination on Monday.
Castaneda said a lifeguard was trying to control the crowd as he tried to help but soon it seemed apparent that the boy had been decapitated.
The statement said: “Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with”.
“As we try to mend our home with him no longer with us, we are comforted knowing he believed in his Savior, Jesus, and they are forever together now”.
The Verruckt, which means “insane” in German, opened in July 2014, after delays of more than a month due to technical problems. “We will see him another day”, the statement added.
Sprague said the family had been to church on Sunday morning and heard it was “Elected Officials Day” at the Schlitterbahn park. There are no federal inspection laws for waterparks in the US, and inspections are handled on a state-by-state basis. He called any potential legislative response to Sunday’s tragedy premature, saying the investigation should be given time to play out.
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She also said the park’s rides are inspected daily and by an “outside party” before the start of each season.
