Schlitterbahn co-owner pleads not guilty in boy’s death

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – A co-owner of Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy on a massive waterslide.
    
Jeff Henry appeared Thursday in Wyandotte County District Court after being indicted in the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab. The boy died and two women were injured when their raft went airborne and hit an overhead loop on the slide.
    
Henry was ordered to surrender his passport but District Judge Robert Burns rejected a prosecution request that he be required to wear a GPS locator while out on bond awaiting trial. Burns said he wasn’t convinced by the state’s arguments that Henry was a flight risk.
    
A trial date was tentatively set for Sept. 10, but Burns and Henry’s attorney suggested that date could change.