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Officers introduced {that a} man was discovered lifeless at Disney World on Friday night time, rocking the resort as the most recent 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 potential suicide.
The incident occurred within the Orange Storage of Disney Springs, a buying and leisure complicated 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 stated. “This incident is being investigated as a potential suicide.”
WALT DISNEY WORLD SEES 3 DEATHS IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS: REPORTS
Disney Springs is a buying and leisure district at Walt Disney World. (Walt Disney World by way of FOX 35 Orlando / Fox Information)
Friday’s incident follows a number of fatalities at Disney resorts in current months, bringing the entire 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 Put up.
WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT DISNEY’S POP CENTURY RESORT IN FOURTH TRAGIC INCIDENT IN A MONTH
Consumers at Disney Springs on the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Brian Carlson/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Almost per week earlier, a lady in her 40s died after being taken from Disney’s Pop Century Resort to a close-by hospital, OCSO beforehand advised Fox Information Digital.
Reviews additionally present that three friends died inside a two-week interval in October.
Automobiles enter the grounds of Walt Disney World on June 1, 2024, in Orlando, Florida. (Gary Hershorn / Getty Photographs)
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 resort situated close to Magic Kingdom.
| Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
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| DIS | THE WALT DISNEY CO. | 111.24 | -0.63 | -0.56% |
The Put up 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 lady recognized as Disney superfan Summer time 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.
