Child seriously injured at Astroworld Festival: 9-year-old is in a medically-induced coma, family says
Bernon Blount advised CNN his grandson, Ezra Blount, was on the town to see “his favourite artist” and attended the live performance along with his father, Treston Blount.
“When my son went to the live performance, he had my grandson on his shoulder,” Blount mentioned. “All of the individuals pushed in and he couldn’t breathe so he ended up passing out due to all of the stress 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 identify or something as a result of he received separated from my son,” Bernon mentioned.
When the daddy regained consciousness, “as an alternative 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,” in keeping with Blount.
“Through the occasion on the live performance, he had cardiac arrest which broken his coronary heart,” he mentioned. “He has harm to the liver, his lungs … and on high of that, he has swelling on his mind,” Blount mentioned. CNN has not been in a position to independently verify Ezra’s medical standing with the hospital.
The household is “devastated as a result of this was speculated to be a father-son outing for them to bond and it has became one thing horrible and tragic,” Blount mentioned.
“There must be accountability, not simply from the artist or the occasion planners, but additionally from town of Houston,” Blount added.
Attorneys Ben Crump of Ben Crump Legislation and Alex and Bob Hilliard of Hilliard Martinez Gonzalez have been retained by the dad and mom of Ezra Blount, in keeping with an announcement from the attorneys.
“The struggling that this household goes by means of is immeasurable. This little boy had his entire life forward of him — a life that’s presently hanging within the stability due to the reckless mismanagement that ensued on the Astroworld Competition,” lawyer Crump mentioned within the assertion.
