{"id":981714,"date":"2021-11-07T17:28:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T22:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=981714"},"modified":"2021-11-07T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T22:28:48","slug":"8-killed-at-travis-scotts-astroworld-festival-include-a-14-16-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-killed-at-travis-scotts-astroworld-festival-include-a-14-16-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Killed at Travis Scott&#039;s Astroworld Festival Include a 14 &#038; 16-Year-Old"},"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%2F8-killed-at-travis-scotts-astroworld-festival-include-a-14-16-year-old%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=981714&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--><p class=\"subheading\">HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Investigators Sunday worked to determine how eight people died in a crush of fans at a Houston music festival, as friends and loved ones mourned the victims and a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles took shape at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities planned to use videos, witness interviews and a review of concert procedures to figure out what went wrong Friday night during a performance by&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/houston-astroworld-festival-crowd-surge-deaths-travis-scott-acd59eac66639a0a0c74c1753f7fb607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">rapper Travis Scott.&nbsp;<\/a>The tragedy unfolded when the crowd rushed the stage, squeezing people so tightly they couldn\u2019t breathe.<\/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>Bouquets, votive candles, condolence notes and T-shirts, including a Scott shirt, were left outside at NRG Park.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Suarez, 26, came to the growing memorial after attending the concert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s very devastating. No one wants to see or hear people dying at a festival,\u201d Suarez said. \u201cWe were here to have a good time \u2014 a great time \u2014 and it\u2019s devastating to hear someone lost their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The dead, according to friends and family members, included a 14-year-old high school student; a 16-year-old girl who loved dancing; and a 21-year-old engineering student at the University of Dayton. The youngest was 14, the oldest 27.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"AP Photo\/Michael Wyke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/music-festival-deaths-pedestrian-cross-main-street-front-of-sign-announcing-cancellation-of-astroworld-640x427-1.jpg\" alt=\"A pedestrian cross Main Street in front of a sign announcing the cancellation of Astroworld on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Houston. Several people died and numerous others were injured in what officials described as a surge of the crowd at the music festival while Travis Scott was performing Friday night. (AP Photo\/Michael Wyke)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A pedestrian crosses Main Street in front of a sign announcing the cancellation of Astroworld on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Houston. (AP Photo\/Michael Wyke)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Houston officials did not immediately release the victims\u2019 names or the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen people remained hospitalized Sunday. Their conditions were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>City officials said they were in the early stages of investigating what caused the pandemonium at the sold-out Astroworld festival, an event founded by Scott. About 50,000 people were there. Authorities said that among other things, they will look at how the area around the stage was designed.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Services Corp., headquartered in Los Angeles, was responsible for security staff at the festival, according to county records in Texas. Representatives for the company \u2014 which advertises online as being \u201crecognized worldwide as the pioneer, expert and only employee owned company in the crowd management field\u201d \u2014 did not immediately respond to emails and phone messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>One concertgoer said that as a timer ticked down to the start of Scott\u2019s show, held in a fenced-off parking lot, the crowd pushed forward. Screaming and panic ensued, and people began passing out.<\/p>\n<p>On video posted to social media, Scott could be seen stopping the concert at one point and asking for aid for someone in the audience: \u201cSecurity, somebody help real quick.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.375\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Travis Scott shares video addressing the tragedy at Astroworld Fest <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSjVpJH3fK\">pic.twitter.com\/MSjVpJH3fK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 XXL Magazine (@XXL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XXL\/status\/1457157189018193924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a tweet posted Saturday, Scott said he was \u201cabsolutely devastated by what took place.\u201d He pledged to work \u201ctogether with the Houston community to heal and support the families in need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Investigators Sunday worked to determine how eight people died in a crush of fans at a Houston music festival, as friends and loved ones mourned the victims &#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-981714","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\/981714","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=981714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981714\/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=981714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}