9-year-old Dallas boy dies after Astroworld festival crush

HOUSTON — A 9-year-old Dallas lad has go the youngest idiosyncratic to dice from injuries sustained during a assemblage surge astatine the Astroworld euphony festival successful Houston.

Ezra Blount of Dallas died Sunday astatine Texas Children’s Hospital successful Houston, household lawyer Ben Crump said.

Ezra was placed successful a medically induced coma aft suffering superior injuries successful the Nov. 5 crush of fans during a show by the festival’s headliner, rapper Travis Scott.

He is the 10th idiosyncratic who attended the festival to die.

“The Blount household contiguous is grieving the incomprehensible nonaccomplishment of their precious young son,” Crump said successful a quality merchandise Sunday night. “This should not person been the result of taking their lad to a concert, what should person been a joyful celebration.”

Treston Blount, Ezra’s father, described what happened Nov. 5 successful a station connected a GoFundMe leafage that helium acceptable up to assistance defray Ezra’s aesculapian expenses. He said Ezra was sitting connected his shoulders erstwhile a assemblage surge crushed them. The begetter mislaid consciousness and erstwhile helium came to, Ezra was missing, Blount said. A frantic hunt ensued until Ezra was yet recovered astatine the hospital, severely injured.

The kid incurred terrible harm to his brain, kidney, and liver aft being “kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and astir crushed to death,” according to a suit his household has filed against Scott and the event’s organizer, Live Nation. The Blount household is seeking astatine slightest $1 cardinal successful damages.

The others who died ranged successful property from 14 to 27. Some 300 radical were treated astatine the festival tract and 13 were hospitalized.

Houston constabulary and occurrence section investigators person said they are reviewing surveillance video provided by performance promoter Live Nation, arsenic good arsenic dozens of clips radical astatine the amusement wide shared connected societal media. Investigators besides planned to talk with Live Nation representatives, Scott and concertgoers. Scott and the lawsuit organizers are present the absorption of a transgression investigation.