Kasich orders rides shut down after deadly Ohio State Fair accident - Page 2

Lumara · #11 (**permalink**) 07-27-2017, 07:04 PM

What a tragedy!

Here are some details.

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Teen in state fair accident wakes up to find out her boyfriend died

A 19-year-old woman who was flung from a swinging ride that broke apart at the Ohio State Fair was given the heartbreaking news Thursday that her boyfriend was killed in the tragedy.

“She kept asking for her boyfriend,” Clarrisa Williams said about her daughter, Keziah Lewis, who remained hospitalized, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

“I had to tell her he was the one who was deceased,” she said about Tyler Jarrell, 18, of Columbus, who had recently joined the US Marines.

Lewis and six other people were injured when a row of seats snapped off the Fire Ball on Wednesday evening during the fair’s opening day.

Jarrell was thrown high in the air and was killed when he landed about 50 feet from the ride, officials said.

Williams, 51, said her daughter, a creative writing and journalism student at the University of Cincinnati, suffered pelvis, ankle and rib injuries but remembers nothing from the accident. She has undergone two surgeries and faces another one Friday.

The other people injured are Tamika Dunlap, 36, of Reynoldsburg, Jacob Andrews, 22, of Pataskala, and Russell Franks, 42, Jennifer Lambert, 18, and Abdihakim Hussein, 19, all of Columbus, officials said.

The family of a 14-year-old boy who also was injured requested that his name be withheld.

Three of the victims remained hospitalized in critical condition and one in serious condition. Two were released Thursday morning.
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