Astroworld crowd crush: A 9-year-old injured at the festival is in a medically-induced coma, family says

A 9-year-old boy who was critically injured at the Astroworld Competition on Friday evening is in a medically induced coma in an try to beat trauma to his mind, based on the boy’s grandfather.

Bernon Blount advised CNN his grandson, Ezra Blount, was on the town to see “his favorite artist” and attended the live performance together with his father, Treston Blount.

“When my son went to the live performance, he had my grandson on his shoulder,” Blount stated. “All of the folks pushed in and he couldn’t breathe so he ended up passing out due to all of the strain that was being utilized to his physique. And when he handed out, Ezra fell off his shoulder and fell into the gang.

When Bernon’s son got here to, his grandson Ezra had already been taken to the hospital as a John Doe. “They didn’t know something about him, his title or something as a result of he acquired separated from my son,” Bernon stated.

When the daddy regained consciousness, “as a substitute of being seen or getting himself checked out, he went and tried to search out Ezra and ended up discovering him on the Texas Youngsters’s hospital,” Blount stated.

“Through the occasion on the live performance, he had cardiac arrest which broken his coronary heart,” he stated. “He has harm to the liver, his lungs … and on high of that, he has swelling on his mind,” Blount stated. CNN has not been in a position to independently affirm Ezra’s medical standing with the hospital.

The household is “devastated as a result of this was purported to be a father-son outing for them to bond and it has changed into one thing horrible and tragic,” Blount stated.

“There must be accountability, not simply from the artist or the occasion planners, but in addition from town of Houston,” Blount added.

Attorneys Ben Crump of Ben Crump Regulation and Alex and Bob Hilliard of Hilliard Martinez Gonzalez have been retained by the dad and mom of Ezra Blount, based on a press release from the attorneys.

“The struggling that this household goes by is immeasurable. This little boy had his complete life forward of him — a life that’s at the moment hanging within the stability due to the reckless mismanagement that ensued on the Astroworld Competition,” legal professional Crump stated within the assertion.

The household has established a GoFundMe to assist Ezra’s restoration.