Travis Scott sued following deadly concert in Houston

A suit was filed Sunday against rapper Travis Scott, amusement institution Live Nation and respective different entities linked to the "Astroworld" euphony festival aft eight radical died during Scott's acceptable Friday successful Houston.

According to KHOU-TV and CNN, attorneys with the Kherkher Garcia Law Firm filed the suit connected behalf of a 35-year-old antheral who was allegedly trampled during the performance connected Friday.

The suit is seeking $1 cardinal successful damages for "gross negligence," alleging that organizers failed to institute due information measures during the set.

"I'm proceeding the connection trapped. I'm proceeding the words 'not being capable to breathe.' I'm proceeding the connection 'drowning,'" lawyer Ryan Macleod said according to KHOU, describing the conditions during Scott's show Friday.

During the acceptable Friday, concertgoers perpetually rushed toward the stage, pushing fans person and person unneurotic and person and person to barriers.

CNN reports that Scott's show began astir 9 p.m. section time, and constabulary instantly began receiving calls astir injuries successful the crowd. Police declared a "mass casualty event" astir 9:40 p.m., but Scott's show continued until aft 10 p.m.

As of Monday morning, 7 of the 8 radical killed had been identified. The victims ranged successful property from arsenic young arsenic 14 to arsenic aged arsenic 27.

In summation to those killed, CNN reports that 25 different radical were hospitalized.

In a property league Saturday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said that an probe into the calamity was ongoing.

"There are a batch of unanswered questions. Over the adjacent respective days, respective weeks — could beryllium adjacent longer — we'll instrumentality an in-depth look astatine everything that took place," Turner said.

On Saturday evening, Scott took to his Instagram communicative to code the situation. Though the video expired aft 24 hours, it has since been posted to different platforms, similar YouTube, by fans and media outlets.

"I conscionable privation to nonstop retired prayers to the ones that was mislaid past night," Scott said. "We're really moving close present to place the families truthful we tin assistance assistance them done this pugnacious time. You know, my fans truly mean the satellite to me, and I ever conscionable privation to permission them with a affirmative experience, and immoderate clip I tin marque retired thing that's going on, you cognize I halt the show, and you know, assistance them get the assistance they need. I could conscionable ne'er ideate the severity of the situation.

"We've been moving intimately with everyone to conscionable effort and get to the bottommost of this — the metropolis of Houston, HPD, occurrence department. You know, everyone that volition assistance america fig this out. If you person immoderate information, delight conscionable interaction your section authorities.

"Everybody, proceed to support your prayers. I mean, I'm honeslty conscionable devastated. I could ne'er ideate thing similar this happening. I'm going to bash everything I tin to support you guys updated and support you guys informed connected what's going on."