Astroworld Festival timeline: Within minutes the show turned deadly

“We do know that we had individuals leap the fence,” and at the least one individual was injured within the afternoon rush, Peña stated.

CNN requested Peña whether or not the occasion led to particular precautions at this 12 months’s occasion. “It is apparent that in the event that they did, they weren’t sufficient,” Peña responded.

CNN has reached out to Houston police and representatives for Travis Scott for touch upon The New York Occasions report.

Earlier than 9 p.m. Central Time: Madeline Eskins, an ICU nurse attending the present, informed CNN’s Christi Paul a countdown timer started round half-hour earlier than Scott was set to seem on stage.

“And unexpectedly, individuals compressed up in opposition to one another and have been pushing ahead and backward. Because the timer acquired nearer to coming all the way down to zero, it simply — it acquired worse and worse,” Eskins stated.

“Little did we all know, all hell was about to interrupt unfastened. Individuals began to move out and fall to the bottom,” Schmidt informed CNN.

“The gang grew to become tighter and tighter, and at that time it was onerous to breathe. When Travis got here out performing his first tune, I witnessed individuals passing out subsequent to me,” TK Tellez stated.

Sarai Sierra, who went to the pageant to have fun her birthday, stated she noticed a number of individuals who couldn’t breathe after Scott appeared on stage.

“I really thought that if I fell it will’ve been the tip of me. I spent at the least quarter-hour simply getting pushed round because of mosh pits or just because individuals have been ‘raging,'” Sierra stated.

9:30 p.m.: Officers first obtain experiences of individuals falling injured within the crowd, in line with Peña, and stated they “requested extra sources to the scene.”

Finner stated Saturday at a press convention “our individuals stepped up and instantly went to the producers and informed them, ‘Hey, persons are taking place.'”

9:38 p.m.: A “mass casualty occasion” was formally declared, Peña stated.

“From the time that the mass casualty incident was declared, to the primary unit on scene, was two minutes after we started to make affected person contact,” he stated.

“Travis Scott would have a short while in between songs, and we’d scream our vocal cords out, so somebody might hear us however no one did,” Tellez stated. “This 12 months’s pageant will probably be caught with me without end. I’ve by no means seen somebody die in entrance of my eyes. It was horrific.”

Scott maintains he had no concept concerning the severity of what was taking place within the crowd as he continued his set, telling followers in an Instagram video Saturday evening he’s “devastated” by what occurred.

“Any time I might make out, you recognize, something that is occurring, you recognize, I simply stopped my present and, you recognize, helped them get the assistance they want,” Scott says within the video.

Footage from the live performance’s dwell stream additionally confirmed Scott pausing his efficiency and looking out on in obvious confusion as an ambulance pulled into the gang earlier than ending the live performance.

Concertgoers Nick Johnson and Angel Rodriguez informed CNN Scott stopped the present on at the least three events to ask for assist for these within the crowd.

When requested why the present was not stopped sooner, Finner cited potential rioting “when you may have a gaggle that is younger” in a crowd of roughly 50,000 individuals.

Finner stated there was a “dialogue between promoters, the hearth division, the police division, and NRG officers” about stopping the occasion.

Round 10:10 p.m.: The efficiency was stopped and the occasion got here to an finish, in line with Houston mayor Sylvester Turner. One concertgoer informed CNN’s Rosa Flores he checked out his watch when the live performance ended, and it indicated “10:13 or 10:14 p.m.”