Police revealed on Aug. 8 that the 10-year-old son of a Kansas state legislator died of a neck injury while riding the world’s tallest waterslide.
Caleb Schwab, the son of Rep. Scott Schwab died on Aug. 7 at Schlitterbahn Waterpark on the Verrückt waterslide.
According to Kansas City Police, responding emergency personnel found Caleb “dead from a fatal neck injury at the end of the ride, in the pool.” The young boy was one of three passengers strapped in a raft. The other riders—two women unrelated to the Schwabs—were treated for minor facial injuries.
