Nothing could have prepared me for what I witnessed last night,” Eskins, 23, told The Daily Beast. In a statement Saturday afternoon, Scott said he was “absolutely devastated by what took place last night” and gave his “total support” to investigators.Ĭoncertgoer Madeline Eskins, an ICU nurse who has worked in the ER, was trapped in a crush of bodies near the front of the stage and said she thought she was going to die. In one clip, Scott spotted an ambulance with flashing lights, making mention of it from the stage, pausing for a few moments-and then sending two members of his entourage diving off the stage to crowd surf. Multiple videos showed fans dancing on top of emergency vehicles as they were trying to help unconscious people. Other videos show a cameraman ignoring attendees who were begging him to stop the show because people were dying. Scott eventually ended his performance but fan videos and witness accounts provided to The Daily Beast showed him still performing as fans and paramedics performed CPR on passed-out concertgoers. He said medics onsite were so overwhelmed they had to ask people in the crowd to administer CPR. Larry Satterwhite, who was working near the stage, said earlier Saturday. local time when the crowd began to compress toward the stage and people “began to fall out, become unconscious and it created additional panic,” Houston Police Chief Lt. “This remains, and will be, a very active investigation.” “We’re not taking anything off the table,” Turner said.
There were 528 Houston Police officers on site, 755 private security guards and a third-party company provided medics, Finner said. Houston officials said Saturday afternoon they were still investigating the possible cause of the crush and whether there were any “missteps” in the planning and execution of the event.Ĭounty and city officials, who worked with Astroworld and Live Nation to stage the event at NRG Park, which is a county venue, insisted on Saturday they they had a “robust” safety and security plan that didn’t breach capacity limits.
At least 11 people were hospitalized suffering cardiac arrest and more than 300 of the 50,000 attendees were treated at a field hospital on the grounds that day. The eight victims’ ages ranged from 14 to 27, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Saturday afternoon.
Attendees described being crushed to the point of passing out, having their pleas for help ignored, and seeing overwhelmed medics struggle to evacuate bodies from the Houston event. history.Įight people died and 23 were hospitalized, including a 10-year-old child, in the crush during Scott’s livestreamed opening-night performance. HOUSTON, Texas-Music fans as young as 14 were killed on Friday night as a panic-fueled crowd surged during rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, turning the packed event it into one of the deadliest concerts in U.S.
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