Astroworld aftermath Stacey Sarmiento places flowers at a memorial in Houston on Sunday, Nov.
“I just want to send out prayers to the ones that was lost last night.
Adelman told the AP that investigators will examine the design of the festival’s safety barriers and whether they correctly directed crowds or contributed to the crush of spectators.
“Security, obviously, was unable to stop people.
Jacob Jurinek, who would have turned 21 on Nov.
Edgar Acosta confirmed his son’s identity to KTRK, saying that the man was taken to Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital after a sold-out crowd surged toward rapper Travis Scott.
7: Danish Baig, 27, was trying to protect a woman when he was fatally injured, his younger brother, Basil Mirza Baig, told the Houston Chronicle.
First responders rushed Baig to a hospital, but he died in the ambulance, the brother said.
“People were trampled, walked, and stomped on,” Basil Baig wrote on Facebook.
I want to make it clear we weren’t aware of any fatalities until the news came out after the show and in no would we have continued filming or performing.
“Our hearts go out to the student’s family and to his friends and our staff at Memorial.
“Everything about that night was a tragedy,” Tracy Faulkner, whose 15-year-old son attended the concert with Hilgert, told the Chronicle.
She was a beautiful vibrant 16-year-old high school junior at Heights High School in Houston, Texas.
“My brother was the sweetest person, friendly, outgoing.
This is a terrible loss, and the entire family is grieving today,” the letter, obtained by KPRC-TV, stated.
6: The University of Dayton confirmed Saturday evening that a student was killed while attending a concert in Houston, Texas, but the school stopped short of identifying the Astroworld Festival as the venue, WHIO reported.
In a news release the university identified the student as 21-year-old Franco Patino, a senior from Naperville, Illinois, who died Friday.
Patino was also a member of Alpha Psi Lambda, a Hispanic interest fraternity, as well as the university’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
“We do have a report of a security officer, according to the medical staff that was out treating him last night, that he was reaching over to restrain or grab a citizen and he felt a prick in his neck,” Finner told reporters during an afternoon news conference.
We’re not taking anything off the table.” He said the ages of the dead, whose names have not yet been released, were between 16 and 23.
6: Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said that 528 officers from the Houston Police Department were at NRG Park for the Astrodome festival.
6: At a news conference, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the eight people who died ranged in age from 14 to 27.
The organizers, Scott and LiveNation, stopped the show, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said during the news conference.
“Once we started having the mass casualty incident, they were starting CPR on several people, and it happened all at once,” Houston Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite said during the news conference.
The city of Houston extends our condolences to the loved ones of 8 people killed & several injured at #ASTROWORLDFest.
In 2017, 58 people were killed at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, according to the AP.
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