On Monday , US Marshals arrested Schlitterbahn waterslide designer John Timothy Schooley for charge that admit second - grade murder and reckless endangerment of a child . Schooley designed the Verrückt waterslide , the world ’s improbable and fastest waterslide , which decapitated a 10 - year - old male child in 2016 .
The agent apprehended Schooley at Dallas - Fort Worth International Airport as he was arriving on a flight from China . He was being held without bond in Dallas on Tuesday good morning and will belike be extradite to Wyandotte County , Kansas , as the destruction occurred at the Schlitterbahn water ballpark in Kansas City , Kansas . Schooley could face up to 41 years in prison house if if he is convict , accord to theAssociated Press .
Schooley and others connected to the ridewere indicted by a Kansas tremendous jury tardily last month . Schlitterbahn ’s co - owner Jeff Henry and managing director of military operation Tyler Miles were apprehend last week . harmonize to theKansas City Star , the bill of indictment says company direction ignored safety gadget standards and the warning of railroad engineer . It alleges that Schlitterbahn built the slide to romance Travel Channel ’s Xtreme Waterparks and covered up injury .
Verrückt ( which means “ insane ” in German ) open in the summer of 2016 . At 168 feet , it was taller than the Statue of Liberty . Gizmodointerviewed Schooley soon after the drive was build . “ fundamentally , we were sick enough to try anything , ” Schooley told Gizmodo in 2014 . “ We resolve to design something entirely new , because we decided to put a three or four man gravy boat down it , and we require not only the fast and exorbitant body of water swoop going downhill , but we wanted to take it uphill over a jut , to give citizenry a weightless experience going down the other side . ”
Schlitterbahn interpreter Winter Prosapio said that Schlitterbahn will be fight the charges . “ The incident that happened that 24-hour interval was a terrible and tragical accident , ” Prosapio severalize Gizmodo . “ We mourn the loss of this child and are devastated for his family . We reiterate that Tyler , Jeff , and John are innocent and that we black market a secure operation — our 40 twelvemonth of entertaining zillion of people speaks to that . We are confident that their innocence will be proven in court of justice where we know the fact will show this was an stroke . ”
[ Kansas City Star ]
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