- After the Astroworld Festival, the father of a 9-year-old child said he was “not ready to lose” his son.
- “We still have a lot of work to do,” Treston Blount said, according to reports KTRK-TV.
- His son Ezra suffered severe damage to his organs after being trampled at the concert.
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After Travis Scott’s astronomy festival, the father of a 9-year-old boy said he was “not ready to lose” his son.
Ezra, the son of Treston Blount, is a fan of the rapper. Trampled in the crowd At the concert at NRG Park in Houston last week Nine deaths And hundreds of people were injured.
Blunt tells KTRK-TV His son is “very excited” to go to the concert. According to reports, during the event, the two stood behind the crowd, and Blunt carried his son on his shoulders.
But Blount told the news station that when Scott stepped onto the stage, the concert audience started pushing. Authorities said Around 9:30 in the evening, a huge crowd of about 50,000 people began to squeeze towards the stage Witnesses tell the inside story They have difficulty breathing during the activity.
“My son put Ezra on his shoulders at the concert. My son couldn’t breathe because of all the pressure on him. He passed out,” the child’s grandfather had told him before. KTRK-TV“When he passed out, Ezra fell into the crowd. He was trampled badly.”
According to KTRK-TV, when Blunt woke up at the festival, his son had been taken to the hospital, adding that when he arrived, he was told that his son’s main organs were severely damaged.
“I can say he was injured,” Blunt told the media. “I’m not ready to lose my boy at all. We still have a lot of work to do…that’s my boy.”
A sort of GoFundMe The work created by Blount has raised more than $60,000 at the time of publication.National civil rights lawyer Ben Crump represents the family Represented more than 100 Astroworld victims in litigation.
