This is what we all know in regards to the eight people who died on the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night time:
John Hilgert, 14
John was a freshman at Memorial Excessive College in Houston, Spring Department Unbiased College District spokesperson Terry Abbott instructed CNN.
Memorial Excessive College Principal Lisa Weir despatched a letter Saturday to oldsters on the faculty, informing them of the dying.
“We’re deeply saddened to tell you {that a} male ninth grade scholar died … in an incident on the Astroworld Competition. Our hearts exit to the coed’s household and to his pals and our employees at Memorial. It is a horrible loss, and your entire MHS household is grieving in the present day,” Weir’s letter reads.
Brianna Rodriguez, 16
Brianna was a junior at Heights Excessive College in Houston, in response to a verified GoFundMe account established by her household.
“Dancing was her ardour and now she’s dancing her technique to heaven’s pearly gates,” the fundraising post says.
Franco Patino, 21
Patino, a senior on the College of Dayton, was finding out mechanical engineering know-how and human motion biomechanics, in response to an announcement from the college.
He was a member of Alpha Psi Lambda, a Hispanic-interest fraternity, the assertion stated, and was initially from Naperville, Illinois.
“He was cherished by so many due to the loyal, loving, selfless, protecting, humorous, and caring particular person he was,” his household stated in an announcement. “Despite the fact that he was a hardworking particular person, he would at all times attempt to find time for his household and the folks he cared about. We are going to miss the massive coronary heart Franco had and his ardour for serving to others.”
Danish Baig, 27
Baig, from Euless, Texas, died making an attempt to save lots of his fiancée, who was getting stomped on and hit within the crowd surge on the live performance, his brother Basil Baig instructed CNN Sunday.
His household stated he was a tremendous one that cherished with all his coronary heart.
“Individuals would admire him for who he was,” Basil Baig instructed CNN.
Basil Baig stated his brother’s fiancée survived however is bruised throughout her physique and is traumatized.
Jacob Jurinek, 20
Jurinek was a junior finding out journalism at Southern Illinois College Carbondale, the varsity stated.
Within the launch, SIU Chancellor Austin Lane stated Jurinek “was a inventive, clever younger man, with a promising profession in journalism and promoting.”
Rodolfo Peña, 23
Peña lived in Laredo, Texas and studied at Laredo Faculty, in response to his Fb web page.
His older brother Guadalupe Peña arrange a verified GoFundMe account for funeral bills.
“I’m beginning a go fund me for my youngest brother (Rodolfo Angel Peña)’s passing please donate out of coronary heart something is nice,” the net fundraising publish reads.
Peña was 23, in response to CNN affiliate KTRK, which spoke along with his sister.
Axel Acosta Avila, 21
Acosta was a junior at Western Washington College and had an curiosity in laptop science, in response to the college. He was from Tieton, Washington.
His brother Joel Acosta instructed CNN that Axel had turned 21 in October.
The scholar was on the occasion alone, his aunt Cynthia Acosta instructed CNN affiliate KTRK. “It was his first time going to an occasion like that,” she instructed the Houston station.
In line with Joel Acosta, the household final heard from his brother round 5 p.m. on Friday. On Saturday, the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Workplace launched an outline and requested the general public for assist figuring out the stays.
Madison Dubiski, 23
Dubiski, who was from Cypress, Texas, was listed by the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Workplace as one of many individuals who died.
CNN’s Keith Allen, Rosa Flores, Andy Rose, Caroll Alvarado and Melissa Alonso contributed to this report.
