“I had to adjust my feet ever second to make sure I didn’t slip and fall,” Spencer added.

“I was getting put in a chokehold by people continuously because I couldn’t move. “I was fearing for my own life,” she told the Post. Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty ImagesĬourtney Spencer, also 18, of Frisco, Texas, said the experience was “terrifying.” “They looked horrified.” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks at the press conference addressing the cancellation of the Astroworld Festival at the Wyndham Hotel on Nov. “I’ve never seen such panicked looks on people’s faces,” Angulo told the Post. She was four rows back from the barricade in front of the stage when Scott came out, felt a giant push and saw people getting pulled over the barricade. Marisa Angulo, 18, of Houston, said she had attended all three of the prior Astroworld events, named for a now-shuttered Six Flags park in Houston. Goods said she was so desperate to get out of the crush that she bit a man on the shoulder to get him to move. “All of a sudden, your ribs are being crushed. “As soon as he jumped out on stage, it was like an energy took over and everything went haywire,” concertgoer Niaara Goods said. Travis Scott performs during the 2021 Astroworld Festival at NRG Park on Nov. Officials said they will also examine video taken by Scott’s crews and the promoters, Live Nation, along with materials provided by the public, for clues into any attacks along with what caused the crowd to surge. “People were being spiked against their own will.” “This was a targeted attack on innocent people, including a child,” the source maintained. The results from the medical examiner will provide more information as to the extent of any possible sticking attacks, a problem that has been reported in some clubs in the UK in recent weeks.Ī source close to concert organizers told The Post they believe that is what happened, suggesting that the people who collapsed were all in the same area of the crowd. The department is awaiting autopsy reports on the victims, who ranged in age from 14 to 27. Emergency personnel respond to the Astroworld music festival. Some 300 people were treated at a field hospital set at the stadium during the “ mass casualty incident,” authorities said. Others among the dead and injured were trampled as the crowd surged toward the stage, Finner said. Officials said 13 remained hospitalized late Saturday, including five under the age of 18 and at least one 10-year-old. Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via APĪt least 11 of the 25 people taken to area hospitals were in cardiac arrest, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena said. Houston police vehicles outside the Wyndham Hotel where they posted a staging area for people looking for family and friends after the concert at Astroworld. “This is now a criminal investigation that is going to involve our homcide division, as well as narcotics,” Finner said during a press conference Saturday afternoon. “We do know that there were several, many, instances where they did administer Narcan on site,” he said. Narcan was used to revive some other concertgoers as well, Finner said, but he was unable to say how many. Police have not yet interviewed the guard, Finner said, but medical staff that treated him said he was administered Narcan, a drug used to revive people who have overdosed on opioids, and they saw what looked like a needle mark on his neck. The preliminary investigation found a security guard was jabbed in the neck while he was among the fans packed into the park for the first of two nights at Astroworld, a festival Scott founded in 2018, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a Saturday afternoon press conference. The tragedy happened Friday at NRG Park when a mass of people among the 50,000 concertgoers at the sold-out show “began to compress” to the front of the stage at around 9:15 p.m., sparking mayhem according to Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña. Why Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott’s zodiac signs are connected in chaosĪ “needle” wielding assailant suspected of injecting at least one person with a possible opioid may have sparked the panic that killed at least eight people and injured 300 others during a stampede at rapper Travis Scott’s concert in Houston, authorities said Saturday. Travis Scott stops concert to help fans after Astroworld tragedy Zac Efron and Netflix sued by company over ‘Down to Earth’ show Family of Astroworld victim settles suit against Travis Scott, others

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