Multiple people were killed during a stampede at a Travis Scott concert in Houston, Texas on November 5. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the incident. The FBI has joined with local authorities in Houston to investigate the Travis Scott concert, known as Astroworld, after multiple people died and dozens were hospitalized following a crowd surge on Friday.
The music festival kicked off its third annual installment Friday at NRG Park with an estimated 50,000 people in attendance. Scott originally kicked off the Astroworld Festival in 2018, more than ten years after the Astroworld theme park closed its doors. The festival went on for a successful year two in 2019 but didn’t take place in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rapper Travis Scott should have halted a show in Houston which saw a deadly crowd surge when he noticed people in trouble, the city's fire chief says.
"Everybody at that event had a responsibility," Samuel Peña told NBC. "From the artist on down."
Eight people were killed and hundreds more injured in a crush at his Astroworld concert in Texas on Friday.The artist said he was "devastated" by the incident and was working to help victims' families.
His partner, the businesswoman and media personality Kylie Jenner, said they only learned there were fatalities after the event.
As of Monday, Scott was named in at least 14 of the personal injury lawsuits filed in Harris County, Texas by Astroworld attendees, alleging negligence and gross negligence. Each civil suit seeks over $1 million in damages and a jury trial.
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