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Officers introduced {that a} man was discovered lifeless at Disney World on Friday night time, rocking the resort as the newest tragedy in a string of deaths reported in current months.
Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace (OCSO) advised FOX Enterprise Monday that the dying is being investigated as a attainable suicide.
The incident occurred within the Orange Storage of Disney Springs, a purchasing and leisure advanced within the sprawling Florida theme park.
“On January 2, 2026, at roughly 9:00 p.m., deputies responded to the Disney Springs Orange Storage on East Buena Vista Drive and found a person who was deceased,” OCSO mentioned. “This incident is being investigated as a attainable suicide.”
WALT DISNEY WORLD SEES 3 DEATHS IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS: REPORTS
Disney Springs is a purchasing and leisure district at Walt Disney World. (Walt Disney World through FOX 35 Orlando / Fox Information)
Friday’s incident follows a number of fatalities at Disney resorts in current months, bringing the whole variety of deaths reported at Disney World since its 1971 opening to roughly 70.
On Nov. 8, a physique was discovered at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, in response to the New York Submit.
WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT DISNEY’S POP CENTURY RESORT IN FOURTH TRAGIC INCIDENT IN A MONTH
Customers at Disney Springs on the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Brian Carlson/Bloomberg through Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Almost per week earlier, a girl in her 40s died after being taken from Disney’s Pop Century Resort to a close-by hospital, OCSO beforehand advised Fox Information Digital.
Studies additionally present that three company died inside a two-week interval in October.
Vehicles enter the grounds of Walt Disney World on June 1, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. (Gary Hershorn / Getty Photos)
In late October, the Orange County Medical Examiner’s Workplace advised FOX Enterprise that a person in his 60s was discovered lifeless from an obvious suicide on the Modern Resort, a deluxe lodge positioned close to Magic Kingdom.
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The Submit added that one other man in his 60s suffered a medical emergency two days earlier at Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground and was transported to a hospital, the place he later died.
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Previous to that, a 31-year-old girl recognized as Disney superfan Summer season Equitz was reportedly discovered lifeless from an obvious suicide at Disney’s Modern Resort.
FOX Enterprise’ Pilar Arias and Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
