Astroworld festivalgoer Travis Scott sued Drake and Drake for more than a million dollars. He claimed that the rappers incited the crowd, which left him “severely hurt” and eight other people dead.
Kristian Paredes, 23, from Austin, Texas, filed the complaint obtained by DailyMail.com Sunday accusing the rappers, Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation of negligence.
According to the complaint, Drake ‘came on stage alongside Travis Scott and helped incite the crowd.’ He accuses Drake of continuing to perform with Travis Scott ‘as the crowd became out of control’ and ‘while the crowd mayhem continued.’
He is now seeking over $1million in damages.
Rappers Travis Scott and Drake are being sued for over a million dollars by a man who claims he was left ‘severely injured’ in the crowd
Kristian Paredes, 23, from Austin, Texas, filed the complaint obtained by DailyMail.com Sunday
According to his complaint, Drake appeared on stage with Travis Scott and incited the crowd. Drake is accused of performing with Travis Scott as the crowd grew out of control. while the crowd mayhem continued’
Paredes claims he was in the first section of general admission, and that he had only a barrier between him and the VIP Section.
According to him, he experienced an “immediate push” as Travis Scott’s countdown ended. He entered the stage at 9:59pm.
According to the filing, ‘The crowd became chaotic’ and “a stampede started leaving 8 dead and many others including Kristian Paredes seriously injured.”
Texas attorney Thomas J. Henry representing Paredes said: “There’s no excuse for what happened at NRG stadium Friday night.”
It says that many people begged Live Nation Entertainment security guards for assistance, but they were not able to help them.
Paredes states in the lawsuit, that the deaths and injuries are the result of negligence, carelessness and recklessness by the defendants, their agents, servants, and employees in regard to the management, ownership, operation, supervision and control of the subject premises.
Texas attorney Thomas J. Henry representing Paredes said: “There’s no excuse for what happened at NRG stadium Friday night.”
“There are many indications that performers, venue organizers and venue knew about the chaotic crowd and that possible injuries and deaths could have been caused. They chose to make profits and let the show go.
Live musical performances are intended to encourage catharsis. These concert-goers had been looking forward for this event for many months. They deserved to be able to enjoy their evening in a relaxed and safe setting. They were instead faced with fear, injury, death.
Social media has captured the events of the night, with many people unable to see the tragedy and the rapper continuing his performance.
Paredes claims in the suit that injuries and deaths result from the negligence, carelessness, and recklessness of defendants, their agents and servants, in relation to ownership, management and operation of subject premises.
Video circulating on Twitter shows fans begging the rapper to stop performing and chanting ‘stop the show’ as concertgoers were being knocked down and crushed by other attendees.
Fans were filming the concert, and CPR was being performed by people. People were screaming at stage staff, demanding that they stop performing the concert because people are dying. Madeline Eskins (ICU nurse, concert-goer) said to Rolling Stone that nobody listened.
It was overcrowded. This was totally insane. I knew it was just way too crowded – it just got worse and worse as I got closer to Travis Scott performing it got more crowded, more crowded, more crowded.’
Additionally, she shared with us that while they were not at fault for the tragedy and the inexperience of the medical personnel involved, it was clear that the staff had been unprepared.
Eskins posted on Instagram that “some of these medical personnel had little or no experience in CPR – didn’t know how check a pulse. carotid. or femoral.”
“Compressions were performed without performing a pulse test so people who have pulses could receive CPR. However, there were not enough people available to do compressions on those with no pulse. The medical personnel didn’t have what they needed and, despite Travis acknowledging that an individual in the crowd required an ambulance, they kept on going.
The rapper then began to sob. Page Six received a report from a close source saying that he didn’t know what was happening, but he was actually performing.
He was so confused, I had never heard anyone like him. Source added that the source was in tears.
A social media video captures fans asking Travis Scott for help to end his Astroworld Festival Friday night. The crowd surge left hundreds of people injured and eight dead. As concertgoers were crushed and knocked to the ground by others, fans chanted “Stop the Show!”
Travis Scott performed his 75-minute set at Astroworld, despite eight deaths and hundreds of injuries in the crowd surge.
Scott (29 years old) continued his performance after eight people died, including two children aged 14 and 16. Scott was part of a floor of bodies described by one witness.
Scott did his 75-minute show, but at one point he was recorded calling out for help. Another video shows him standing on a platform while chaos was unfolding below.
Nearly 50,000 people attended Houston’s Astroworld at NRG Park. Witnesses claim chaos broke out as Scott began to perform.
Eskins, who said this was her third time attending Astroworld, said she thought she was going to die: ‘I looked at my boyfriend and I was about to tell my boyfriend to tell my son I loved him because I did not think I would make it out of there. Then I fell to the ground.
“I tried jumping up to try to get more air. It was impossible to breathe. I just felt it. It was there.
Donovon Davis (22) of Houston stated that everything was fine until Travis made the announcement about when he would be on stage. “That was when things got crazy.”
“The crowd moved so fast that people fell onto us and people on top of them.” It was a layered and layered world of people falling.
Davis said, “I turned to grab him and could hear his screams for help.” It hadn’t begun yet. I was moved by the crowd and saw people walk past him.
Atsroworld Festival emergency crews respond Friday night to reports of a deadly crush
As they perform CPR, medics can be seen taking patients to the hospital.
Others from the evening showed disillusioned fans asking concert staff to stop performing and rescue them.
‘People are f***ing dying, I want to save somebody’s life,’ a man said as he climbed on a platform where a cameraman was filming the performance.
“That’s somebody else’s child!” They are my children! He shouted but nothing worked.
A second clip featured the man climbing towards the cameraman with a female companion, begging the employee to end the concert.
The cameraman tried to get revelers off of the platform by speaking inaudibly, but he was trying to get back into the crowd.
Eskins posted a picture of her Astroworld experience to Instagram. In her Instagram account, Eskins gave specific examples of the way the medical staff handled all the chaos.
People rush to the VIP section before Travis Scott performs at festivals.
Houston police officers surrounded an unconscious youth and guided him down to safety. The officers rolled him onto their backs and shined lights in his eyes.
According to police investigating the fatal crush, a man with a psychotic personality injected at most one victim with painkillers during the madness.
Troy Finner, Houston’s Chief of Police made this shocking statement at Saturday’s press conference. This was after hours of speculation about the Astroworld Fest tragedy. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston revealed that the victims ranged in age from 14 to 27.
“One narrative was that an individual had been injecting others with drugs. According to medical staff, we do have the report of a security guard, which was treated last night,” Troy Finner, Houston Chief of Police, said Saturday at the conference.
“He reached over to grab or restrain a citizen, and felt something in his neck.
They administered Narcan to him after he became unconscious. His condition was stabilized and he was given Narcan.
Although it is not clear what drug was administered to the security guards, Narcan can be used to revive those who have overdosed on opioids such as fentanyl.
It has not been reported that concertgoers were given drugs.
The cause of the fatal crush, which also injured 25 others, remains unknown. The needle-stabber has not been arrested.
Scott finished his 75-minute show, but at one point he was recorded calling for help. Another video shows him standing on a platform while chaos unfolded below.
At 2 p.m. hundreds stormed into the VIP area of the festival. Eight people were killed in a stampede to the festival’s main stage seven hours later. However, the events seem unrelated
Pena announced in a Saturday news conference that Pena had declared the’mass casualty accident’ at 9.15pm. A little over an hour later at 10.10pm Live Nation stopped the show.
Mayor Turner confirmed then that two of the eight victims who died were younger than 18, 21 years old, 23 years old and 23, while one victim was 27, with one remaining unknown.
He stated that total 25 persons were taken to hospital following the “tragic event” and that 13 people are still in hospital, five of them under 18.
A distressing video captured a male concertgoer unconscious being taken to hospital after falling asleep in a crowd. It happened just after 9:00 CST, Friday.
On Friday night, hundreds of people were seen rushing through the VIP entry without being stopped, raising fears about overcrowding.
The chaos continued and Scott even made a fleeting glance at the faces of the fans who were getting tired. Scott stopped the performance at least one time and called for security assistance to those in distress.
Houston Chief of Police Troy Finner announced during a press conference Saturday (pictured) that a crazed man injected at least one person with opioids during the chaos. The connection between that and the fatal crush which left 25 others in hospital is still unclear.
Mayor Turner indicated that the investigation continues with the police’s homicide and drug teams, and added that the local government was also in contact with representatives of Live Nation Worldwide as well as Live Nation Entertainment.
Turner indicated that Turner was likely to be there for some time to find out what exactly happened.
Houston Police Chief Larry Satterwhite was at the front of the crowd and said that the surge “happened all in one”.
Satterwhite explained that suddenly there was a group of people on the ground who were experiencing a type of medical episode or cardiac arrest. So we began performing CPR immediately and moved the people.
Satterwhite claimed that the promoters quickly agreed for the end of the event to be in the best interests of the public.
Scott tweeted Saturday that he was devastated by last night’s events.
He said he would work “together with Houston to heal the Houston families and provide support for them.”
A memorial has been established outside NRG Park.
At the venue’s gate, people left flowers and balloons.
Matthew who created the temporary memorial told KPRC, “I wanted it to be put up, just for the lives lost.” Rilwan Balogun
Many people left flowers, balloons, or letters at the gate near the venue.
On Saturday, flowers are placed at NRG Park’s canceled Astroworld festival
“The #AstroWorld community is split right now. We need something to unite us.”
He added: “Even online communities come together just for the sake of coming over here and to share something.”
Astroworld organizers cancelled the remainder of the festival that was scheduled to go on Saturday.
On the Astroworld Festival’s Facebook page, they wrote that their hearts were with the festival family. They also expressed support for the loved ones who lost or are currently in mourning. “We’re focusing on local officials.”
Scott, a young star in music, started the Astroworld Festival at age 29.
He has received eight Grammy nominations. A three-year-old girl, Kylie Jenner is his reality star. Jenner announced that Jenner was expecting their second child in September.
PICTURED – A dancer aged 16, who died to save his family and an American man.
Two of the victims were aged between 14 and 27. They died at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival Friday. The victim’s brothers criticized the management of the festival, saying it was a poor event run by horrible people.
Danish Baig (27 years old) was among those who were killed in the surge that occurred at the concert. University of Dayton student Franco Patino, 21, a senior, also died at day one of the Astroworld festival at NRG Park in Houston, Texas, the school said.
Basil Baig, Baig’s brother confirmed that Baig died trying to rescue a family member during the concert stampede.
Basil posted on Facebook, “My brother died in the horrible Astroworld event that was poorly managed and supervised by so many terrible people.”
He was kind enough to praise his brother’s courage, and even called him a beautiful soul.
Others whose deaths have been confirmed to various news outlets are 14-year-old John Hilgert, 16-year-old Brianna Rodriguez and Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Peña, 23.
Danish Baig, 27, was killed in Travis Scott’s Astroworld. His brother stated that he saved his relative from the stampede of Friday and had just reached out to save him. Franco Patino, 21 (right), also died, the University of Dayton said
Brianna Rodriguez, 16, (left) was a dancer and junior in high school. Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Pena, 23,(right) was an aspiring model and dreamed of one day being a US Border Patrol agent. He was struck with cardiac arrest and died.
Basil wrote, “My brother attempted to save my sister-in law from these horrible acts that were being performed to her in order to lose his life.”
“My brother Danish Baig” [is]Beautiful souls are the best![e]His smile was infectious and brightened up everyone’s day. He saved my sister-in-law from the horrible things being done last night by showing his courage.
“I was there but couldn’t save my brothers.”
Basil said that people were hitting, pushing, and shooting at each other and didn’t really care about the lives of others.
He also claimed that Stormi Jenner, Kylie Jenner’s baby daddy and super-rapper, “provoked” these people and made them do what he wanted. [stampede]He called more people onto the stage, encouraging them to get into the crowd. The show did not stop.
Basil stated that it was not the end of my family’s lives and that he would be brought to trial.
Basil, his brother (second from left), confirmed the death of his brother (left) on Facebook. He called it a “courageous act”
Patino, 21, was an undergraduate at University of Dayton (southern Ohio), where he studied engineering.
Brianna is pictured below with her mother.
After being hurt at the event, Pena suffered cardiac arrest and died.
Brianna Rodriguez (16 years old) confirmed on Saturday that she was one the eight victims of the tragedy.
Franco Patino (21) from the University of Dayton also perished at the incident.
According to WGN9, Patino was an avid fan of the rapper. He traveled from Southern Ohio to Houston with his best friend in order to celebrate the birthday of his friend.
The college senior was studying engineering and was a member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Alpha Psi Lambda.
Patino, a student from the Society’s Special Interest House, was a member of it. He created it with Andy Prieto.
Patino stated that Andy and his wife worked tirelessly to realize this dream because they believed it was necessary to provide a place for Hispanics in the institution.
John Hilgret, 14, of Hunters Creek Village, was the youngest person to die at the concert. Officials at Memorial High School confirmed his death on Saturday, when he was still a freshman student.
Scott wrote a post on Instagram Saturday in which he stated that he was devastated and is ‘working closely to authorities’
Hilgret attended Friday’s concert with his long-time friend, Robby Hendrix, 15.
Hendrix’s mother, Tracy Faulkner, bought her son’s ticket it for his birthday and ‘ultimately regrets the decision.’
Faulkner said to Houston Chronicle, “Everything that happened on that night was a tragedy.” They were at the same location at the same point, and both of them came home. One will be with us forever.
She stated that Hilgret had been friends with Hendrix since childhood and they played football together.
John was polite, a great student, an athlete, and a very good friend. She shared that he was the smartest, sweetest young man she knew.
Following a large crowd surge, the event saw eight deaths.
It was described by one witness as “a floor of bodies” and the fans were shouting at each other to stop it.
Their families identified two other victims as having died in the tragedy.
Brianna Rodriguez, 16, People confirmed, and Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Peña, 23, confirmed by the Laredo Morning Times, were among the eight.
Rodriguez was an accomplished dancer, and she graduated from high school as a junior.
Her family posted the following message on Facebook: “Gone to our sites but never our hearts,”
To help her family with their funeral costs, they set up a GoFundMe account. The GoFundMe has already raised $8,910 of the $30,000 it set out to raise.
USA Today reports that Pena, an aspiring model, had dreamed of becoming a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Pena traveled five hours to Houston from Laredo with friends in order to go to the show. Pena died after suffering cardiac arrest.
Pena’s sister said to the Laredo Morning News: “My brother was sweetest, friendliest, and outgoing. He had many friends because of his willingness to help everyone. Travis was his favorite artist and Pena loved Travis.
About 50,000 people were present at the Astroworld Festival held at NRG Park Friday. Witnesses claim chaos broke out as Scott began to perform.
The surge took place at 9:15 PM. At that point, the’mass causalty incident’ was officially declared. The concert was stopped by Live Nation at 10.10 p.m.
A crowd of hundreds was seen marching past a VIP entrance to the Live Nation event earlier in Friday. Fears of crowd control problems and excessive crowds were raised by this footage.
Scott, aged 29, performed after eight others were crushed to death, two of them just 14-year-old victims. Scott continued his performance in what one witness called a floor of bodies’
Video circulating on Twitter shows fans chanting ‘stop the show’ as concertgoers were being knocked down and crushed by other attendees.
Scott did his 75-minute show, but at one point he was recorded calling out for help. Another video shows him standing on a platform while chaos was unfolding below.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner revealed during a press conference Saturday that the dead ranged in age from 14 to 27. The victims’ families are being notified and police are working hard to find them. The cause of their deaths has yet to be determined.
The chaos continued and the rapper finished his performance. He even glanced in the direction passed out fans while the show was going on. Scott intervened at least once to call for security so that he could help the distressed fans on the front row.
Scott’s girlfriend Kylie Jenner (pregnant with their second child) was also present at the event. However, she was criticised online after posting footage of an ambulance caring for the wounded and the dead during the chaos.
However, other video clips from that night show distraught fans begining concert staff to stop their performance and rescue them from this surge.
‘People are f***ing dying, I want to save somebody’s life,’ a man said as he climbed on a platform where a cameraman was filming the performance.
“That’s somebody else’s child!” You must save them. He shouted in pain, but no one was listening. Astroworld Fest organizers released a statement on Saturday offering condolences for the victims’ families and appealing to anyone who has any information to call Houston Police.
TMZ also reported that a key person’ from Astroworld stated that Friday night’s incident was the result a?targeted assault’. He said that someone in the crowd had gone insane and begun injecting people with some drug. It caused panic and then a spike.
Cops say they will remain open-minded, though Houston’s fire chief claims that the tragedy may have been caused by a crush.
According to the Houston Chronicle Friday’s deadly incident was not the first time the concert’s producer Live Nation Worldwide and Live Nation Entertainment has come under scrutiny for OSHA safety and antitrust violations.
According to Billboard, the live entertainment company, which produces 40,000 shows per annum, has been charged with 16 violations. It has also paid over $83million in fines.
Scott posted a statement on Saturday about the events on Instagram, saying that he is ‘devastated and is working closely alongside authorities.
Scott, who is 29 and a member of the Instagram community, stated that his followers mean the most to him. He also said that they are important to him.
“Anytime that I’m able to make out any of the happenings, yay, I interrupt the program and, you know, assist them in getting the help they require. It was beyond my comprehension.
Houston’s music festival witnessed a raucous crowd surge toward Scott’s performance. It knocked other concert-goers off the stage and squeezed them so tight that they couldn’t breathe or move their arms.
The rapper said, “To those who lost their loved ones last night,” and that he was working to identify the families in order to help them get through this difficult time.
‘I’m honestly just devastated… I could never imagine anything like this just happening.’
Scott stated that he was working with the local authorities to investigate the crowd surge. He also encouraged any person with information regarding the incident.
He told his followers that he’d keep them up to date about the investigation.