On May 28, 1977, a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, killed 165 people who turned out to see popular Hollywood singer and actor John Davidson during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Here is a quick list of the worst: 165 dead: Beverly Hills Supper Club, 1977 5, which left ten people dead and dozens injured.Īfter a tragic chain of events unfolded during Travis Scott’s performance, the Astroworld Festival now includes itself in the list of the deadliest concerts in U.S. Three people were trampled and hospitalized.( NewsNation Now) - Details are still being pieced together about what happened at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Nov. In 2019, the Astroworld Festival saw a similar incident when thousands rushed to get into the festival. “When you get pushed back, people always fall over,” Rodriguez said. “It just got worse and worse, everyone’s like, you just can’t breathe, you just feel like there’s a weighted blanket on you.”Īnd once people were pushed toward the stage, breathing got more challenging, Rodriguez explained. “It was going on for over two hours,” Johnson said. Nick Johnson and Angel Rodriguez, who also went to the festival, said a crowded atmosphere built up over an extended period of time. “It felt like we were drowning in a pool filled of just people,” she said. Sierra, who attended the festival with friends and family, added that she saw about 20 people who could not breathe, including one person who suffered a seizure before her eyes. 'Beyond your control.' The recipe for a deadly crowd crush Travis Scott performs on day one of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park on Nov. I spent at least 15 minutes just getting pushed around due to mosh pits or simply because people were ‘raging,’” Sierra said. “I truly thought that if I fell it would’ve been the end of me. Sarai Sierra, who went to the festival to celebrate her birthday, said she saw multiple people who could not breathe after Scott appeared on stage.
With scores of people injured as they were pushed toward the stage, some audience members told CNN that they couldn’t breathe and thought they might die. ‘Like we were drowning in a pool filled of just people’ He closed his post with the hashtag “Pray4Houston.” “Please have the families of those we lost yesterday reach out to I’ll be donating my net compensation to the families of this incident,” Ricch posted on Instagram. Rapper Roddy Ricch, one of the festival’s performers, announced he will donate his share of concert proceeds to victims’ families “We are certainly looking at all of the video footage, we are talking to witnesses, we are talking to event organizers,” Turner told CNN on Saturday. The investigation will cover “what caused, one, the issue of the crowd surge, and two, what prevented people from being able to escape that situation,” Peña said Saturday. The Friday night crowd at the sold-out Astroworld Festival, headlined and organized by rapper Travis Scott, was so tightly packed that when audience members were pushed toward the stage, some told CNN that they were crushed to the point where they couldn’t breathe and passed Scott speaks out after Astroworld Festival tragedy Turner said the identity of the eighth victim in Friday’s tragedy, who was previously unidentified, has been confirmed by the victim’s family. “We are praying for their family members, there are still two individuals who are critical – in critical condition in our hospitals – so, we are praying for all of them,” Turner said. Mayor Sylvester Turner told CNN his office is working to determine what happened at the Astroworld Festival, how it happened and to make sure it does not happen again. The Houston Police Department tweeted on Sunday that the investigation into the tragedy is active and “is in its early stages.” After a crowd surge at a Houston concert that left eight people dead and dozens injured, officials said they will investigate key causes and what could have been done to get attendees out of harm’s way.
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