This 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 Faculty in Houston, Spring Department Unbiased Faculty District spokesperson Terry Abbott informed CNN.
Memorial Excessive Faculty Principal Lisa Weir despatched a letter Saturday to folks on the college, informing them of the dying.
“We’re deeply saddened to tell you {that a} male ninth grade scholar died … in an incident on the Astroworld Competition. Our hearts exit to the scholar’s household and to his buddies and our employees at Memorial. This can be a horrible loss, and the complete MHS household is grieving in the present day,” Weir’s letter reads.
Brianna Rodriguez, 16
Brianna was a junior at Heights Excessive Faculty in Houston, in accordance with a verified GoFundMe account established by her household.
“Dancing was her ardour and now she’s dancing her approach to heaven’s pearly gates,” the fundraising post says.
Franco Patino, 21
Patino, a senior on the College of Dayton, was learning mechanical engineering know-how and human motion biomechanics, in accordance 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 beloved by so many due to the loyal, loving, selfless, protecting, humorous, and caring particular person 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 folks he cared about. We are going to miss the massive coronary heart Franco had and his ardour for serving to others.”
Danish Baig, 27
Baig, from Euless, Texas, died making an attempt 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 an incredible one who beloved with all his coronary heart.
“Individuals 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 learning journalism at Southern Illinois College Carbondale, the varsity 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 School, in accordance 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 web fundraising publish reads.
Peña was 23, in accordance with CNN affiliate KTRK, which spoke together with his sister.
Unknown sufferer, early 20s
The id of one of many victims who beforehand had been unknown by authorities has been decided, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner informed CNN Sunday.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences launched an announcement Sunday asking for help in figuring out a person in his early 20s with “quick black or darkish brown wavy hair” and “a slight mustache with a noticeable goatee.”
“That particular person has been recognized, and call has been made together with his household,” Turner mentioned.
CNN’s Keith Allen, Rosa Flores, Andy Rose, Caroll Alvarado and Melissa Alonso contributed to this report.
