{"id":1014200,"date":"2021-11-15T09:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1014200"},"modified":"2021-11-15T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T14:13:49","slug":"9-year-old-ezra-blount-dies-from-astroworld-injuries-bringing-death-toll-to-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-year-old-ezra-blount-dies-from-astroworld-injuries-bringing-death-toll-to-10\/","title":{"rendered":"9-Year-Old Ezra Blount Dies from Astroworld Injuries, Bringing Death Toll to 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2F9-year-old-ezra-blount-dies-from-astroworld-injuries-bringing-death-toll-to-10%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=1014200&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\/ezra-blount-travis-scott-astroworld-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The death toll from rapper Travis Scott\u2019s November 5 performance at Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, has risen to 10 after a 9-year-old boy who was trampled at the event died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The family of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/14\/report-chaos-from-travis-scotts-astroworld-has-9-year-old-on-life-support\/\">Ezra Blount<\/a>, who was on life support for days after he was injured at Astroworld, confirmed that he died on Sunday, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/astroworld-festival-tragedy-ezra-blount-child-injured-at-travis-scott-concert-2021\/11236835\/\">report<\/a> by ABC 13.<\/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>Last week,&nbsp;Ezra\u2019s father, Treston Blount, told ABC 13 that his son was a fan of the rapper, saying: \u201cHe was&nbsp;so stoked\u201d to attend the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Blount reportedly held Ezra high on his shoulders as the countdown began to Scott\u2019s performance. He stayed toward the back of the back of the crowd because he thought that area would be more calm, but the stampede hit as soon as the rapper took the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s father then reportedly lost consciousness and Ezra fell to the ground, where he was then trampled by concertgoers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Blount said that after he regained&nbsp;consciousness,&nbsp;he could not find his son anywhere. The father then rushed to on-site medic tents, as well as several hospitals. It wasn\u2019t until he filed a police report that he later received a message&nbsp;from an officer that included a picture of Ezra.<\/p>\n<p>When Blount got to the hospital, he was told that Ezra\u2019s major organs had been damaged, his brain was swollen, and he was on life support, ABC 13 reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not ready to lose my boy at all. We still got a bunch of living to do\u2026 That\u2019s my boy,\u201d he told ABC 13 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>After the death of Ezra on Sunday, the death toll&nbsp;from&nbsp;Astroworld has now risen to ten. Eight concertgoers were pronounced dead the night of the event. The ninth victim,&nbsp;22-year-old college senior Bharti Shahani, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/11\/texas-am-student-hurt-at-travis-scott-astroworld-festival-dies-now-9-fatalities-total\/\">died<\/a>&nbsp;on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from rapper Travis Scott\u2019s November 5 performance at Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, has risen to 10 after a 9-year-old boy who was trampled at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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-1014200","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\/1014200","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014200\/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=1014200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}