9-year-old dies after Astroworld festival crush

9-year-old dies after Astroworld festival crush, pushes death toll to 10

it's like that no job. I feel like yeah, you're not flashing me. I'm just like, that actually happened. Like reading the news about it. Like saying that people actually died. Like sometimes I look back on that could have been me because it's like, God forbid I stayed in that crowd any longer. I'm pretty sure that's where most of those people like, you know, had that cardiac arrest because that's where I couldn't move. So as soon as he came out, the wave just like kind of crushed me in and I was like this, I was being controlled by everybody and I had to keep my head up like this towards the sky so I can breathe. And as soon as the music came on, everyone went crazy, everyone pushed forward and like, you couldn't really move. You'd hear like everyone just saying, get out, I can't breathe about to pass out. I need you to move. There was even an instance where like when were, you know, open up, You know, I much prefer another song. Some guy was just like, just hurling and we'll just make sure you're like, okay, like kind of make them away from to get back a little bit because like, there was, there was a security guard, like kind of behind the rails where we're at and I'm like so sore. I got bruises all over me but we were getting really pushed against the fence or the the barricade and our barricade even started to break and the security had to come over to us and like start strapping the rails and they were even like holding it like the whole concert because the metal had literally started to break and there just wasn't enough security telling people to like you know, pushed like move back. So there was security there but just not enough for if you're expecting a big crowd like that, it was probably like 5 to 1 ratio of security, like 10 security versus like 305 100 people. Like it's just they're just gonna run through and security usually on top of their job. But like this time on this one it just felt like almost like security boys like a non existent. They even cited themselves where they were like saying, oh we were understaffed a little, it's like

9-year-old dies after Astroworld festival crush, pushes death toll to 10

A 9-year-old Dallas boy has become the youngest person to die from injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston.Ezra Blount of Dallas died Sunday at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, family attorney Ben Crump said.Ezra was placed in a medically induced coma after suffering serious injuries in the Nov. 5 crush of fans during a performance by the festival's headliner, rapper Travis Scott.He is the 10th person who attended the festival to die."The Blount family tonight is grieving the incomprehensible loss of their precious young son," Crump said in a news release Sunday night. "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 happened Nov. 5 in a post on a GoFundMe page that he set up to help defray Ezra's medical expenses. He said Ezra was sitting on his shoulders when a crowd surge crushed them. The father lost consciousness and when he came to, Ezra was missing, Blount said. A frantic search ensued until Ezra was eventually found at the hospital, severely injured.The child incurred severe damage to his brain, kidney, and liver after being "kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and nearly crushed to death," according to a lawsuit his family has filed against Scott and the event's organizer, Live Nation. The Blount family is seeking at least $1 million in damages.The others who died ranged in age from 14 to 27. Some 300 people were treated at the festival site and 13 were hospitalized. Houston police and fire department investigators have said they are reviewing surveillance video provided by concert promoter Live Nation, as well as dozens of clips people at the show widely shared on social media. Investigators also planned to speak with Live Nation representatives, Scott and concertgoers. Scott and the event organizers are now the focus of a criminal investigation.

HOUSTON —

A 9-year-old Dallas boy has become the youngest person to die from injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston.

Ezra Blount of Dallas died Sunday at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, family attorney Ben Crump said.

Ezra was placed in a medically induced coma after suffering serious injuries in the Nov. 5 crush of fans during a performance by the festival's headliner, rapper Travis Scott.

He is the 10th person who attended the festival to die.

"The Blount family tonight is grieving the incomprehensible loss of their precious young son," Crump said in a news release Sunday night. "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 happened Nov. 5 in a post on a GoFundMe page that he set up to help defray Ezra's medical expenses. He said Ezra was sitting on his shoulders when a crowd surge crushed them. The father lost consciousness and when he came to, Ezra was missing, Blount said. A frantic search ensued until Ezra was eventually found at the hospital, severely injured.

The child incurred severe damage to his brain, kidney, and liver after being "kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and nearly crushed to death," according to a lawsuit his family has filed against Scott and the event's organizer, Live Nation. The Blount family is seeking at least $1 million in damages.

The others who died ranged in age from 14 to 27. Some 300 people were treated at the festival site and 13 were hospitalized.

Houston police and fire department investigators have said they are reviewing surveillance video provided by concert promoter Live Nation, as well as dozens of clips people at the show widely shared on social media. Investigators also planned to speak with Live Nation representatives, Scott and concertgoers. Scott and the event organizers are now the focus of a criminal investigation.

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