What was suppose to be a two-day festival was cut short after eight deaths and multiple injuries during Travis Scott’s concert. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 8 of26 Members of Harris County Mounted Police Unit makes its way into the gates of Astroworld at NRG on Saturday, Nov. Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 7 of26 Houston Police stands outside the Wyndham hotel where friends and family can try to find out status of missing loved ones from Astroworld in Houston on Saturday, Nov. “They went to a party and never came home.” Jon Shapley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 6 of26Ī drone image of the stage that Travis Scott was performing on during his Astroworld event when the crowd surged and caused fatalities and injuries the night before in Houston on Saturday, Nov.

Jon Shapley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 5 of26 Greg Riojas grieves at a memorial for those who died at the Astroworld music festival the night before, on Saturday, Nov. Jon Shapley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 4 of26 Jessica Bazan cries at a memorial for those who died at the Astroworld music festival the night before, on Saturday, Nov. “I’m just very blessed,” he kept repeating. “It was scary, people gasping for air and screaming for help,” he said. Rivera said he was in the crowd during the concert. Jon Shapley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 3 of26 John Rivera, center, signs as card as others grieve at a memorial for those who died at the Astroworld music festival the night before, on Saturday, Nov. Jon Shapley/Staff photographer Show More Show Less 2 of26 A man grieves from his parked car at a memorial for those who died at the Astroworld music festival the night before, on Saturday, Nov. Landon White places a shirt at a memorial for those who died at the Astroworld music festival the night before, on Saturday, Nov. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate SAFETY WOES: Astroworld Festival concert producer has history of OSHA violations So far, eight people are confirmed dead in a mass casualty event that sent 17 people to hospitals, with at least 11 suffering cardiac arrest. Several people fell under the stamping crowd as attendees choked and struggled to breathe. performance on Friday night, a chaotic crowd began rushing toward the stage, crushing people against security barriers. Pinned under twisted metal, seven people died and 58 were injured, reported the Indianapolis Star. 13, 2011 featuring country band Sugarland, gusts of wind from an encroaching thunderstorm collapsed the stage's temporary roof onto the waiting crowd. Right before an outdoor concert in Indianapolis on Aug. TRAGIC HISTORY: Astroworld Festival the latest in a line of global concert tragedies. The assailant shot Abbott in the head before opening fire on the audience of 200 people, killing three others, reported The Columbus Dispatch. 8, 2004 by a 25-year-old attendee who walked onto the concert stage at the Columbus, Ohio nightclub. Alrosa Villa Nightclub, 2004įormer Pantera guitarist 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott was murdered in a mass shooting on Dec. Two other people died in hit-and-run accidents, and one person drowned in a canal after taking LSD, the Lodi News-Sentinel reported. was stabbed and beaten to death by a Hells Angels member working security after Hunter began waving a revolver erratically near the stage. During a closing act by the Rolling Stones, teenager Meredith Curley Hunter, Jr. But a heady combination of drugs, overcrowding and a motorcycle gang serving as security caused this rock concert at a race track near Tracy, California to degenerate into astonishing violence that ended in four deaths on Dec. It was hailed as the Woodstock of the West, featuring the Rolling Stones, Santana, Nash & Young and the Grateful Dead.

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