{"id":1000090,"date":"2021-11-11T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1000090"},"modified":"2021-11-11T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T23:43:48","slug":"texas-as-astroworld-festival-dies-now-9-fatalities-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-as-astroworld-festival-dies-now-9-fatalities-total\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M Student Hurt at Travis Scott&#039;s Astroworld Festival Dies; Now 9 Fatalities Total"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-as-astroworld-festival-dies-now-9-fatalities-total%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1000090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/travis-scott-bharti-shahani-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 A 22-year-old college senior who was critically injured at the Astroworld festival in Houston has died, the family\u2019s lawyer said Thursday, making her the 9th person to die <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/travis-scott-astroworld-dead-injured-crowd-surge-6c697502318c50ba4b57aa1c6f71f9bf\">after throngs of fans surged toward <\/a> the stage during a performance by headliner Travis Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Bharti Shahani died Wednesday night, attorney James Lassiter said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBharti was a shining star in the community,\u201d Lassiter said. \u201cShe was a sister, a daughter, a high-achieving college student about to graduate from Texas A&amp;M University with high, high grades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shahani\u2019s family said she had been studying electronics systems engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother, Karishma Shahani, became emotional during the news conference. She pointed to her heart as she cried: \u201cWhat happened to her? I want my baby back. I\u2019m empty here.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Officials have not disclosed details about any of the fans who were hospitalized, but the family of a 9-year-old boy who attended the concert with his father has said the child was in a medically induced coma after sustaining injuries to his heart, lungs and brain.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds more people were injured in the surge Friday night as Scott took to the stage. <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/travis-scott-entertainment-business-arts-and-entertainment-police-9e3b8c0289244a16263de9136ea98c93\"> A criminal investigation <\/a> into the deaths at Astroworld is underway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/travis-scott-entertainment-houston-lawsuits-arts-and-entertainment-db79e408e2cae0a73c55c13660f4047b\">Scott was only minutes into his headlining show<\/a> at the Astroworld music festival when at least one Houston officer radioed over a police channel that the main stage had been compromised by a massive crowd surge.<\/p>\n<p>The police radio traffic from the Friday night concert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/astroworld-fest-tragedy\/article\/Police-audio-from-Astroworld-Festival-reveals-16611187.php\">obtained by the Houston Chronicle<\/a>, reveals how quickly law enforcement became aware of the rising danger in the throng of concertgoers <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/travis-scott-astroworld-dead-injured-crowd-surge-6c697502318c50ba4b57aa1c6f71f9bf\">shortly after the star rapper began performing at the sold-out music festival<\/a>, which drew about 50,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Scott took the stage in his hometown of Houston shortly after 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLooks like folks are coming out of the crowd complaining of difficulty breathing, crushing-type injuries,\u201d one official said over the police radio around 9:21 p.m., according to the audio obtained by the newspaper. \u201cSeems like the crowd is compressing on itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott kept performing his set, which lasted about an hour. His attorneys have said he did not know about the tragedy unfolding in the crowd until after the show. The newspaper reported that officers spotted people leaving the crowd but that their voices remained calm through the first half hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m at the medical tent,\u201d one officer radioed in around 9:30 p.m. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people trampled and they\u2019re passed out at the front stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, another officer says: \u201cWe\u2019re getting multiple reports of people getting injured. We have another report of cardiac situation with CPR by the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said Wednesday that police told organizers to shut down the performance when fans in the crowd were administered CPR. Authorities gave word around 10:03 p.m. that the concert was in the process of shutting down, but witnesses say Scott and Drake, the superstar rapper who came on toward the end of Scott\u2019s set as a special guest, kept performing.<\/p>\n<p>Finner repeatedly refused to provide timelines Wednesday in what was just his second press briefing since the tragedy, saying the case was still under investigation. He said more than 500 officers were working the festival, more than double the number assigned in 2019, the last time the festival was held.<\/p>\n<p>But Finner said festival organizers had not provided clear records of how many private security guards were working the show, describing what they turned over as \u201cjust not good.\u201d It was up to Live Nation Entertainment, the show\u2019s promoter, to secure two mosh pits in front of the stage, Finner said.<\/p>\n<p>Scott\u2019s attorneys on Wednesday pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/travis-scott-entertainment-business-arts-and-entertainment-concerts-29cddbc5c798a92c1d0fe717cd06f708\">an operational plan<\/a> for the event that states only the festival director and executive producers have the authority to stop the show, \u201cneither of which is part of Travis\u2019s crew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations should start proceeding over finger-pointing so that together, we can identify exactly what transpired and how we can prevent anything like this from happening again,\u201d attorney Edwin F. McPherson said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 A 22-year-old college senior who was critically injured at the Astroworld festival in Houston has died, the family\u2019s lawyer said Thursday, making her the 9th person to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}