Ezra Blount, the 9-year-old boy who was in a hospital on life support after suffering serious injuries during last Friday’s human avalanche on the first day of the Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, died Sunday, bringing the death toll to 10.
9-year-old boy in coma dies after being trampled at Astroworld Festival
The minor was being treated at Houston Children’s Hospital, had attended rapper Travis Scott’s concert with his father. At the time of the incident, the boy was on his father Treston Blount’s shoulders and fell to the ground after he fainted, and was then trampled by the stampede.
“When my son went to the concert, he had my grandson on his shoulders. All the people pushed and he couldn’t breathe, so he ended up passing out because of all the pressure that was being applied to his body. And when he passed out, Ezra fell off his shoulders and onto the crowd,” Bernon Blount, the boy’s grandfather, told CNN.
When his father came to, Ezra had disappeared from the scene. He then set out on a frantic search until he finally found him at the children’s hospital, badly injured.
“The Blount family mourns tonight the incomprehensible loss of their precious young son, this should not have been the result of taking their son to a concert, what should have been a joyous celebration,” said the family’s attorney, Ben Crump.
The family had activated a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to help defray Ezra’s medical expenses.
The boy suffered severe brain, kidney and liver damage after being “kicked, stomped and trampled, and nearly crushed to death,” according to the lawsuit his family has filed against Scott and event organizer Live Nation.
The Blount family is seeking at least $1 million in damages.
