Here is what we all know in regards to the eight people who died on the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday evening:
John Hilgert, 14
John was a freshman at Memorial Excessive College in Houston, Spring Department Impartial College District spokesperson Terry Abbott informed CNN.
Memorial Excessive College Principal Lisa Weir despatched a letter Saturday to folks on the faculty, informing them of the loss of life.
“We’re deeply saddened to tell you {that a} male ninth grade pupil died … in an incident on the Astroworld Pageant. Our hearts exit to the coed’s household and to his pals and our workers at Memorial. This can be a horrible loss, and the complete MHS household is grieving at the moment,” Weir’s letter reads.
Brianna Rodriguez, 16
Brianna was a junior at Heights Excessive College in Houston, in keeping with a verified GoFundMe account established by her household.
“Dancing was her ardour and now she’s dancing her option 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 expertise and human motion biomechanics, in keeping with an announcement from the college.
He was a member of Alpha Psi Lambda, a Hispanic-interest fraternity, the assertion mentioned, and was initially from Naperville, Illinois.
“He was liked by so many due to the loyal, loving, selfless, protecting, humorous, and caring individual he was,” his household mentioned in an announcement. “Though he was a hardworking particular person, he would all the time attempt to find time for his household and the individuals he cared about. We’ll miss the large coronary heart Franco had and his ardour for serving to others.”
Danish Baig, 27
Baig, from Euless, Texas, died attempting to avoid wasting his fiancée, who was getting stomped on and hit within the crowd surge on the live performance, his brother Basil Baig informed CNN Sunday.
His household mentioned he was a tremendous one that liked with all his coronary heart.
“Folks would admire him for who he was,” Basil Baig informed CNN.
Basil Baig mentioned 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 college mentioned.
Within the launch, SIU Chancellor Austin Lane mentioned Jurinek “was a artistic, 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 keeping with 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 put up reads.
Peña was 23, in keeping with 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 pc science, in keeping with the college. He was from Tieton, Washington.
His brother Joel Acosta informed CNN that Axel had turned 21 in October.
The coed was on the occasion alone, his aunt Cynthia Acosta informed CNN affiliate KTRK. “It was his first time going to an occasion like that,” she informed the Houston station.
In keeping 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.
