Toll from Travis Scott’s Astroworld live performance rises to 10 as nine-year-old dies in hospital
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By Associated Press
HOUSTON: A 9-year-old Dallas boy has grow to be the youngest particular person to die from accidents sustained throughout a crowd surge on the Astroworld music pageant in Houston.
Ezra Blount of Dallas died Sunday at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, household lawyer Ben Crump mentioned.
Ezra was positioned in a medically induced coma after struggling critical accidents within the Nov. 5 crush of followers throughout a efficiency by the pageant’s headliner, rapper Travis Scott.
He is the tenth one who attended the pageant to die.
“The Blount family tonight is grieving the incomprehensible loss of their precious young son,” Crump mentioned in a information launch Sunday night time. “This should not have been the outcome of taking their son to a concert, what should have been a joyful celebration.”
Treston Blount, Ezra’s father, described what occurred Nov. 5 in a put up on a GoFundMe web page that he set as much as assist defray Ezra’s medical bills. He mentioned Ezra was sitting on his shoulders when a crowd surge crushed them. The father misplaced consciousness and when he got here to, Ezra was lacking, Blount mentioned. A frantic search ensued till Ezra was ultimately discovered on the hospital, severely injured.
The little one incurred extreme injury to his mind, kidney, and liver after being “kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and practically crushed to dying,” in line with a lawsuit his household has filed towards Scott and the occasion’s organizer, Live Nation. The Blount household is searching for no less than $1 million in damages.
The others who died ranged in age from 14 to 27. Some 300 folks have been handled on the pageant web site and 13 have been hospitalized.
Houston police and hearth division investigators have mentioned they’re reviewing surveillance video offered by live performance promoter Live Nation, in addition to dozens of clips folks on the present extensively shared on social media. Investigators additionally deliberate to talk with Live Nation representatives, Scott and concertgoers. Scott and the occasion organizers are actually the main focus of a felony investigation.
