9-year-old Ezra Blount fighting for his life after being crushed at Astroworld Festival

Authored by abc13.com and submitted by GoodSamaritan_

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The concert surge chaos at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival claimed the lives of eight people Friday night, but there were more injured and some of those are fighting for their lives.Ezra Blount, age 9, is one of those victims. He went to the concert on Friday with his father.At a point during the show, Ezra was on his father's shoulders, in order to stay out of and above the crowd. But when things got out of control, his father was overcome himself, passed out and fell. Ezra fell as well and was trampled.Initially, the boy was taken to a hospital as a John Doe, separated from his father. Family members desperately tried to find him, only to discover that Ezra suffered major organ damage and was in a coma.Relatives tell ABC13 Ezra has severe brain swelling as well. They're clinging to hope and praying for his recovery.In the meantime, they're asking for someone to take accountability."How could this happen in the city of Houston? You know, when we go to concerts and different events we expect safety and security," Ezra's grandfather wants to know. GoFundMe has been set up to help the family with expenses.

Motor-Ad-8858 on November 9th, 2021 at 08:39 UTC »

Yes. Here in Cambodia on November 22nd, 2010, 347 people were killed and 755 were injured in a stampede on Ko Pich Island. In typical Cambodian fashion, an "investigation" was conducted and the results were never released to the public.

However, SOMEBODY was at fault and the government in the One-Party State knows who it is.

Let us hope that this tragic event in Houston is investigated with full transparency, and that bribe money and cover-up will be removed from the equation.

madvillain-y on November 9th, 2021 at 03:46 UTC »

its important to highlight that livenation is JUST as guilty as travis scott they literally put on the worst festival for profit

edit: ppl correcting me that livenation is more guilty, yeah agreed I just saw waaaaaay more people in comments (from various news articles posted) literally just talking about cancelling travis scott and not livenation

Novel-Jackfruit-369 on November 9th, 2021 at 03:29 UTC »

This seems to indicate people weren't expecting the crowd crush to happen so widespread, being in the back and off to the sides, the extra crowd size and not overlapping the other performances, it just trapped everyone. Horrifying