The 9-year-old who was on life support after getting trampled atTravis Scott’s Astroworld Festival has died.
The family ofEzra Blountconfirmed the news on Sunday toABC13 Houston, bringing the death toll from the tragic concert to 10.
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Houston mayor Sylvester Turner also shared his condolences in astatementposted on Twitter.
“I am saddened to learn of Ezra’s death this evening,” he wrote. “Our city tonight prays for his mom, dad, grandparents, other family members and classmates at this time. They will need all of our support in the months and years to come. May God give them strength. RIP Ezra.”
Ezra Blount.courtesy Taylor Blount
On Friday, Ezra’s dad Treston Blount spoke to ABC13 Houston and recounted the events leading up to his son’slife-threatening injuries, which left him on life support and in a medically-induced coma for over a week, the outlet reported.
“He was stoked. He was ready to go,” Blount told the Texas ABC affiliate. “When I found out that he was a big fan [of Travis Scott], I was like, “Oh yeah, we gotta go, we gotta go see Travis live.”
Treston noted that when he and Ezra arrived at the festival, they purposely stayed further back in the crowd and away from the stage.
“We was in the back, way in the back, and I figured, ‘Okay, this is cool,’ ‘cause the front can get a little wild,” Treston said.
Treston and son Ezra Blount.Taylor Blount
However, the concert still got out of hand, and Treston passed out from thepressure of the crowd. Ezra, who was sitting on his father’s shoulders, thenfell and was trampled. Once Treston regained consciousness, Ezra had already been taken to the hospital because his major organs had been damaged and he had brain swelling, the outlet reported.
“I could tell that he was damaged,” Trestonsaid. “I’m not ready to lose my boy at all. We still got a bunch of living to do … That’s my boy.”
“To his young, growing body, these injuries will have life-long effects, impairing his quality of life and ability to grow and thrive as he would have had he not been subjected to this incident,” according to the complaint.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Scott’s attorneyEdwin F. McPherson appeared onGood Morning Americaand said that there “obviously was a systemic breakdown that we need to get to the bottom of before we start pointing fingers at anyone.”
“Once my son saw that the concert was going to happen here in Houston, he bought the tickets months ago,” Bernon said. “It came off as it was going to be a family event, so my son thought that it would be a safe venue for them to come and enjoy together and bond as father and son.”
Nine other concertgoers have died from injuries sustained at Astroworld, includingJacob Jurinek, 21;John Hilgert,14;Brianna Rodriguez, 16;Franco Patiño, 21;Axel Acosta, 21;Rudy Peña, 23;Madison Dubiski, 23;Danish Baig, 27; andBharti Shahani, 22.
source: people.com
