![]() Officials said some victims suffered from cardiac arrest but that autopsies were still pending for the dead.įour survivors were discharged as of Saturday. Twenty-five people were taken by ambulance to local hospitals, according to officials of those, five were younger than 18. You can have rioting,” he said.Īccording to Mayor Turner, there were 528 police officers at the scene as well as 755 security guards provided by concert company Live Nation. “You cannot just close when you have 50,000 individuals that young. ![]() This show ended at 10:10 p.m.,” Finner said. Our people stepped up and immediately went to the producer and told him people are going down. Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said police shut down the event as fast as they could.Īt “9:30, right there, that’s when a few people started going down. Though officials said that the set “ended early in the interest of public safety,” Scott’s 25-song Astroworld performance continued for roughly 40 minutes more, concluding with the same two songs, “Sicko Mode” and “Goosebumps” that he finished with at New York’s Rolling Loud festival in October. Whoa, whoa, whoa.”Īfter a minute’s pause, Scott announced, “Y’all know what you came to do,” the music started up again and the concert kept going. “That caused some panic and it started causing some injuries.” Peña added that the festival was well below the 200,000 capacity allowed under the fire code.Ībout 30 minutes into his set, which was livestreamed on Apple Music, Scott noticed blue and red flashing lights on the festival floor and said, “There’s an ambulance in the crowd. Officials estimated about 50,000 people were attending the outdoor event at NRG Park when crowds began to “compress toward the front of the stage,” Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said. ![]() “But until we determine that, I will ask the tough questions.” ![]() “It may well be that this tragedy is the result of unpredictable events, of circumstances coming together that couldn’t possibly have been avoided,” Judge Lina Hidalgo, the most senior elected official in Harris County, said at the news conference. An eighth person, who he said was male, is still unidentified. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, speaking at a news conference Saturday, described “a tragedy on many different levels” and vowed that “this incident is being thoroughly investigated.” Turner, who said the seven people identified among the dead ranged in age from 14 to 27, said there were “a lot of unanswered questions” that could take weeks to investigate. ![]()
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