Posted on 04/03/2018 12:11:33 PM PDT by ETL
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According to the U.S. Marshals Service, the North Texas Fugitive Task Force took John Schooley into custody at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport after the designer returned from China.
Schooley, 72, was indicted last week on charges of second-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated endangering of a child.
His lawyer, J. Justin Johnston, told ABC News last week his client was out of the country when the charges were filed and was "working with counsel to coordinate his prompt return to the United States" and that Schooley intended "to voluntarily surrender and defend the charges against him."
The U.S. Marshals Service said Schooley was being held in Dallas pending arraignment and removal to Kansas.
Caleb Schwab, the son of a Kansas state lawmaker, suffered a fatal neck injury on the Verrückt waterslide on Aug. 7, 2016, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
Investigators believe the raft collided with one of the ride's metal hoops, decapitating the boy and badly injuring the two other passengers, leaving one with a fractured jaw bone and the other with an orbital bone fracture.
The towering waterslide, which was certified in 2014 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest in the world, was only in operation for six months.
Prosecutors have alleged that Jeffrey Henry, who co-owned Schlitterbahn Waterpark, and other employees of the water park attempted to hide from investigators documents detailing at least 13 people's injuries on the Verrückt waterslide leading up to Schwab's death.
Henry was arrested March 26 and has also been charged with second-degree murder. Tyler Miles, the former operations director of the Schlitterbahn Waterpark, was arrested prior to Henry and charged with 20 felony counts, including involuntary manslaughter.
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Second degree murder? Ridiculous.
ah I didn’t finish the article. Might be something there after all.
That design invites airborne rafts at the hump. Idiots with no credentials should not be designing these things.
I’m OK with the verdict due to their hiding of injuries over just 6 months of operation and not doing anything about it.
Touche’!
Not on your life would I get on that!
Certainly can't be a 1st degree murder charge, any intentional murder that is willful and premeditated with malice aforethought.
2nd degree murder is defined as any intentional murder with malice aforethought, but is not premeditated or planned.
Manslaughter, the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder.
No way he designed this ride to watch people get murdered from it. Unless they are basing it upon the fact that they hid the previous 13 injuries. We don't have enough information as to the degree of severity of those injuries. So that may be the reason behind a charge of murder.
So is the attempt to hide the previous 13 injuries, regardless of severity considered to be malice of afterthought? I guess it must be.
But even still manslaughter seems to be the appropriate charge in this case, not murder, because murder was never the intent. Without that, malice of afterthought is not even relevant. I agree with you 100%, definite over reach by the prosecutor. If he proceeds down that path he may just see his case being lost, unless the jury is able to consider manslaughter charges.
Rule #1: never ride anything put together by carnies
Exactly. Was gonna say it’s because he was a politicians son.
Used to live near there when they were building it, my wife said it would kill someone. I would have tried it myself, wife keeps me alive.
I’m surprised things are this loose. Here in PA, rides are certified and inspected by the state. I’d also be surprised if a P.E. didn’t have to sign off on the design.
Face it. You just don’t get your MIT engineering graduates to design these amusement park rides.
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