A 9-year-old boy on Sunday turned the 10th, and youngest, individual to die from accidents sustained at the Astroworld pageant.
The boy, Ezra Blount, had been in a medically induced coma from accidents his household believes he sustained after being trampled at the Nov. 5 pageant, an outside live performance in Houston headlined by the rapper Travis Scott that was attended by 50,000 and took a tragic flip after a crowd surge occurred close to the stage throughout his efficiency. Authorities are nonetheless making an attempt to find out the trigger.
The demise was introduced on Sunday evening by the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner.
“Our city tonight prays for his mom, dad, grandparents, other family members and classmates at this time,” Mr. Turner wrote on Twitter. “They will need all of our support in the months and years to come. May God give them strength.”
Ezra, a fan of Mr. Scott, spent the live performance on the shoulders of his father, Treston Blount. But the boy turned certainly one of greater than 300 individuals who sustained accidents. Some had coronary heart assaults.
Dozens, a number of of them minors, like Ezra, have been in vital situation afterward.
His father detailed the tragic night on a GoFundMe page. After passing out from lack of oxygen, Mr. Blount regained consciousness with no concept the place his son was. By the time they have been reunited, his son had swelling within the mind in addition to “trauma in nearly all organs,” Mr. Blount wrote.
As Ezra spent the remainder of his days in a hospital, his father documented his son’s situation on the GoFundMe web page, the place hundreds of individuals made donations.
“Thank you everyone for what you have done for my family,” Mr. Blount wrote on Nov. 11. “Please keep hope alive and never stop praying.”
The Blount household beforehand filed a lawsuit in opposition to Mr. Scott; Live Nation Entertainment, which promoted the live performance; and others. Dozens extra have filed lawsuits, and the Houston Police Department is conducting a prison investigation into the pageant.
“This should not have been the outcome of taking their son to a concert, what should have been a joyful celebration,” Ben Crump, the lawyer who represents the Blount household, wrote in an announcement. “Ezra’s death is absolutely heartbreaking.”
