Newly released bodycam footage captured the distressing moments after a wheelchair-bound man was battered to death while riding a rollercoaster at Universal Studios Florida last fall.
“One of those ride carts – it’s just like, blood,” somebody can be heard telling officers after they arrived at the Stardust Racers rollercoaster at Epic Universe in Orlando.
There they found the unresponsive body of 32-year-old Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, who was on the ride with his girlfriend on Sept. 17 when he suddenly passed out – and was left tossing around the ride with his head slamming into the cart.
“He was strapped in, but then he passed out and went unconscious,” somebody was heard telling police in the footage, obtained by News 6.
Rodriguez rushed to a hospital, but was later declared dead from “multiple blunt impact injuries.”
His traumatized girlfriend was also heard describing the harrowing moments she battled to keep him alive on the ride.
“He kept hitting his head. I tried to hold him so he doesn’t hit his head anymore,” she told officers in the video.
