Live performance-goers Nick Johnson and Angel Rodriguez spoke with CNN about their expertise final evening on the Astroworld Pageant in Houston the place at the least eight individuals died, and scores of others had been injured when the gang surged towards the stage throughout a efficiency by Houston rapper Travis Scott.
Johnson and Rodriguez stated Scott stopped the present on at the least three events to ask for assist for stricken concertgoers, and that they attended the pageant with six different mates, who had been all in a position to make it out safely.
Johnson stated the crowded ambiance constructed up over a protracted time period Friday evening.
“It was happening for over two hours,” Johnson stated. “It simply received worse and worse, everybody’s like, you simply cannot breathe, you simply really feel like there’s a weighted blanket on you.”
“Everybody simply began pushing to the entrance,” Rodriguez stated about his vantage level, roughly 50 toes from the stage on the time. “It was so laborious to breathe up there, you simply have to attend till it pushes again, as a result of if it [the crowd] will get pushed ahead, it’s seemingly going to get pushed again,” he continued.
“Once you get pushed again, individuals all the time fall over,” Rodriguez stated.
“It was so laborious to maneuver your arms and it was so laborious to breathe, that I used to be there, like pushing whoever was in entrance of me similar to to, get a breather, simply to breathe,” he stated.
