Travis Scott concert: Brothers who attended Astroworld Festival say the event ‘unraveled in chaos’

Jonathan’s brother, Bryan, stated he is had bother sleeping since Friday’s tragic occasions unfolded.

“I noticed folks screaming in entrance of my face, simply making an attempt to battle for his or her lives, mainly. Everybody’s life was in peril and I simply noticed folks handed out, our bodies on the ground, simply loads of stuff you do not see each day,” stated Bryan.

“At one level I assumed I wasn’t going to make it.”

Lawyer Rick Ramos, who represents the brothers and several other different pageant attendees, stated he’s submitting a category motion lawsuit in opposition to pageant organizer and headliner Travis Scott.

“Mr. Scott, dictated the tempo of the live performance to the gang,” stated Ramos.

A minimum of 58 lawsuits filed over Astroworld tragedy

As investigators and attendees search to know extra about what brought on the lethal crowd crush, a bevy of lawsuits are being filed in civil courtroom on behalf of these on the present.

Houston Police Chief Troy Finner stated at a information convention Wednesday that the “final authority to finish a present (was) with manufacturing and the entertainer, and that must be via communication with public security officers.”

“We do not maintain the plug,” he stated.

Questions have additionally been raised relating to the actions of Reside Nation, the present’s promoter and organizer, in addition to Scott, who has maintained he didn’t know what was taking place within the crowd throughout his set.

“If the lights would have been turned on — (if) the promoter or the artist known as for that — it could have chilled the gang, and who is aware of? Who is aware of what the result would have been? However all people in that venue, ranging from the artist on down, has a accountability for public security,” Hearth Chief Peña advised CNN on Monday.

But representatives of Scott are disputing characterizations made by metropolis officers of his accountability within the surge.

Edwin F. McPherson, an lawyer for Scott, launched an announcement Wednesday blasting Houston metropolis officers over the “finger-pointing,” “inconsistent messages,” and backtracking of statements.

“It was reported that the Operations Plan designated that solely the pageant director and govt producers have authority to cease the present, neither of which is a part of Travis’s crew,” McPherson stated within the assertion.

McPherson additionally famous Finner’s feedback on Saturday that authorities had issues over the present stopping early attributable to potential rioting from concertgoers.

Former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who was launched to Scott by a mutual good friend, advised CNN’s Erin Burnett that Scott is “completely devastated” at what occurred on the pageant.

“His coronary heart is bleeding for his followers,” she stated.

Talking from Houston, Rawlings-Blake stated that she spent over 4 hours with Scott on Wednesday and is working with him to make sure that they’re talking with metropolis administration and the promoters.

“We’re doing every little thing that he can do in his energy to guarantee that no fan ever loses their life at one other live performance,” she stated.

“He’s indignant. He’s upset that this occurred,” she stated, including, “I believe the finger-pointing is simply — It’s unproductive. He at his coronary heart desires to achieve out to the households. He additionally desires to achieve out to guarantee that one thing like this by no means occurs once more.”

Investigation will ‘take weeks, presumably months’

Finner stated at Wednesday’s information convention that it was too early to say for certain that costs could be filed over the catastrophe, however stated investigators had been “not going to go away any stones unturned.”

The chief clarified earlier experiences and stated there was no proof a safety guard on the pageant had obtained a drug-laced injection, however moderately was struck within the head and knocked unconscious.

And regardless of Finner saying Wednesday that an impartial investigation is unwarranted, Harris County Decide Lina Hidalgo might direct a possible third occasion to take action.

“What occurred at Astroworld this weekend was a horrific tragedy, and the households of victims deserve solutions. There could be legal legal responsibility, and that’s the reason we proceed to completely assist the Houston Police Division’s legal investigation,” stated Rafael Lemaitre, communications director for Hidalgo.

“On the similar time, Harris County continues its means of figuring out a separate impartial, third occasion to look into any operational or administrative steps — past something legal — that would have been taken to forestall this from taking place.”

Two stay in essential situation

Twenty-two-year-old Bharti Shahani attended the live performance along with her cousin and her youthful sister, in response to cousin Mohit Bellani. After struggling a number of accidents, Shahani is on a ventilator in essential situation, household lawyer James Lassiter stated in an announcement.

Shahani is a scholar at Texas A&M College finding out digital methods engineering expertise, a college spokesperson confirmed to CNN.

Survivors of the surge describe scenes the place many attendees had been pressed collectively and at occasions unable to remain upright.