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9-one year-Broken-down Becomes 10th Casualty of Astroworld’s Crowd Surge

By Robert Preidt and Robin Foster


HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Nov. 15, 2021 (HealthDay Info) — A younger boy who modified into injured at the Astroworld Festival in Houston has develop into the 10th person to die from an limitless crowd surge at the tournament.

Ezra Blount, 9, modified into trampled at the festival and had been placed in a medically precipitated coma in an strive to address severe mind, liver and kidney trauma, attorneys for his family stated last week, CBS Info reported.

“The Blount family tonight is grieving the final, incomprehensible loss of their treasured younger son,” the attorneys stated in a assertion. “This haven’t got been the tip consequence of taking their son to a dwell performance, a really elated celebration. Ezra’s demise is indubitably heartbreaking. We are committed to looking out for solutions and justice for the Blount family. But tonight we stand in cohesion with the family, in disaster, and in prayer.”

Ezra’s family is suing Travis Scott and other dwell performance organizers for negligence, and the lawsuit says that Ezra modified into “kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and nearly beaten to demise” right throughout the group surge.

“I am saddened to study of Ezra’s demise this evening,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted. “Our metropolis tonight prays for his mom, dad, grandparents, other relatives and classmates at the moment. They are able to need all of our reinforce in the months and future years attend. Would possibly per chance additionally God give them energy. RIP Ezra.”

Scott and other festival organizers are facing a enormous style of court docket cases over what came about at the dwell performance. Scott has stated he’ll pay for the funeral payments of the victims and added that he modified into “fully devastated by what took location.”

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SOURCE: CBS Info

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