Live performance-goers Nick Johnson and Angel Rodriguez spoke with CNN about their expertise final night time on the Astroworld Pageant in Houston the place no less than eight individuals died, and scores of others have been injured when the group surged towards the stage throughout a efficiency by Houston rapper Travis Scott.
Johnson and Rodriguez stated Scott stopped the present on no less than three events to ask for assist for stricken concertgoers, and that they attended the competition with six different pals, who have been all capable of make it out safely.
Johnson stated the crowded environment constructed up over a protracted time period Friday night time.
“It was happening for over two hours,” Johnson stated. “It simply acquired 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 arduous 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 at all times fall over,” Rodriguez stated.
“It was so arduous to maneuver your arms and it was so arduous 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.
