12 year old boy dies while riding a Disney World roller coaster. Here is a look at 12 documented deaths at Disney World.

AP Wire | 06/29/2006 | Boy, 12, dies after riding Disney World roller coaster
_June 29, 2006: Michael Russell, 12, of Fort Campbell, Ky., went limp while riding MGM’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster. He was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. An autopsy has not been performed.

_April 12, 2006: Hiltrud Bluemel, 49, a German tourist, died one day after riding on Epcot’s Mission: Space at Walt Disney World. A preliminary medical examiner’s report showed Bluemel died of brain bleeding. She also suffered from severe high blood pressure.

_August 4, 2005: Jerra Kirby, 12, of Newport News, Va., collapsed at the Typhoon Lagoon water park in Orlando and later died from arrhythmia caused by an early stage viral heart infection.

_June 13, 2005: Daudi Bamuwamye, 4, of Sellersville, Penn., died after riding Epcot’s Mission: Space. An autopsy determined that he died of an irregular heartbeat linked to an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle that can throw heart contractions out of coordination.

_April 30, 2005: Ryan Norman, 30, of Mooresville, Ind., who wore a pacemaker lost consciousness and later died at a hospital after going on the Dinosaur ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. A medical examiner’s report said the ride wasn’t related to the death.

_February 2005: Gloria Land, 77, of St. Paul, Minn., who was in poor health from diabetes and several ministrokes, lost consciousness after riding the Magic Kingdom’s Pirates of the Caribbean and was pronounced dead at a hospital. A medical examiner’s report said Land was in poor health from diabetes and several ministrokes.

_February 11, 2004: A costumed Walt Disney World worker, Javier Cruz, 38, of Orlando, Fla., was killed after being run over by a float during an afternoon parade.

_September 5, 2003: Marcelo Torres, 22, of Gardena, Calif., died when Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad roller coaster’s locomotive struck a tunnel roof. The ride’s first car then ran under the locomotive and Torres’ body had to be extricated by paramedics. Ten others were injured during the incident.

_Between January and March 2003: An 81-year-old woman had a heart attack while on the Universe of Energy ride at Epcot and later died at a hospital.

_November 5, 2000: William Pollock, 37, of St. Petersburg, Fla. was killed on Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World after climbing out of his boat midway through the ride and being struck by another boat.

_June 25, 2000: Cristina Moreno, 23, from Spain, developed a severe headache after riding the Indiana Jones attraction at Disneyland . She suffered a brain hemorrhage and ran up more than $1.3 million in medical expenses in her native Spain before she died in September 2001.

_February 14, 1999: Raymond Barlow, 65, of Clermont, Fla. a part-time park employee, died at Walt Disney World when he fell to his death in the loading area of the Magic Kingdom Skyway.

_December 24, 1998: Luan Phi Dawson, 33, of Duvall, Wash., was killed when a metal cleat ripped loose from Disneyland’s 84-foot-long ship Columbia and fatally struck him in the head. His wife and a Disneyland employee were injured.

_May 16, 1995: Linda Elaine Baker, 4, from Galveston, Texas, slumped over and died while riding with her mother on Body Wars in Epcot. An autopsy concluded the ride did not contribute to her death.

_October 1989: A woman was killed in a boat collision in Disney World. No other details are known.