Update (1230ET): In a very strange turn of events, TMZ is reporting that the frenzy could have been a targeted attack:
A source connected to Astroworld tells TMZ, someone in the crowd went crazy and began injecting people with some sort of drug, which caused panic and then a surge.
The source says authorities are trying to determine if those who went into cardiac arrest were the ones injected. We’re told one of those who died is a 10-year-old.
The source says it appears to be a targeted attack.
We have not confirmed this report, but the source is a key person involved in the festival.
Footage from the event is disturbing…
And perhaps worst of all, some concert-goers climbed the stage and implored staff to “stop the show”…
…and they were ignored.
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As Tom Ozimek detailed earlier for The Epoch Times, police officials said at least eight people were killed and many others injured in a crush when fans surged toward the stage at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Nov. 5 while rapper Travis Scott was performing.
“This is a tragic night,” Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told a news conference outside NRG Park, the event venue.
“Eight confirmed fatalities, and we had scores of individuals that were injured,” he added, describing what occurred as a “mass casualty incident.”
Around 50,000 fans were in attendance at the festival, Peña said, when at around 9 p.m. “the crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, and that caused some panic, and it started causing some injuries.”
“People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic,” he said, adding that emergency response teams transported 17 people to area hospitals, with 11 of the victims in cardiac arrest.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said that some of those taken to hospital were as young as ten years old.
“Tonight’s focus … needs to be on the families and on the lives that we lost,” Hidalgo said. “Many of them extremely young, tragically young.”
“Our hearts are broken. People go to these events looking for a good time, a chance to unwind, to make memories,” Hidalgo said. “It’s not the kind of event you go to to find out about fatalities.”
Travis Scott performs at Day 1 of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park in Houston, on Nov. 5, 2021. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
The fire chief said the cause of death of the 8 deceased will not be officially known until the medical examiner has completed an investigation.
Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite who was near the front of the crowd and told reporters at the press conference that the surge happened suddenly and played out over the course “of just a few minutes.”
“Suddenly we had several people down on the ground, experiencing some type of cardiac arrest or some type of medical episode,” Satterwhite said.
“And so we immediately started doing CPR, and moving people right then, and that’s when I went and met with the promoters, and Live Nation, and they agreed to end early in the interest of public safety.”
The fire chief said that the event organizers had a “medical component” on hand to deal with emergencies, but “they were quickly overwhelmed when the crowd started falling out.”
Over 300 people were treated at an emergency field hospital set up at the venue, Peña said, with over 55 Houston Fire Department units later stepping in to provide assistance.
The show was canceled shortly after the incident, and the Houston Office of Emergency Management later announced that the Astroworld event had been canceled for Saturday.
“Please keep the eight victims and the hundreds injured in your thoughts and prayers,” the agency wrote in a tweet.
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said “it’s very important that none of us speculate” about what caused the surge and to allow investigators to complete their work.
“Nobody has all the answers tonight,” he said. “We just don’t know. And we will find out. So, pray for these families.”
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Further proof these people don’t care about anybody but themselves. Their fans are just a bunch of dollar signs. The fact the show continued despite obviously distressed people desperately trying to get help is disturbing.
Now do the US government.
Maybe it’s just me, but since this hysteria kicked off, I have lost any desire whatsoever to be in a large group of humans ever again. Unless it’s the crowd watching Fauci hang.
I’m sure it’s all Trump’s fault.
That summbitch put the live round in Baldwin’s gun too.
MSNBC will confirm it soon!!!
Yessir, Nicole “the Chipmunk” Wallace just knows he did it.
Unpossible.
Putin is the one to blame, always and for everything. (Or is it Xi now?)
Sounds like someone was trying to help with the forced ‘vaccinations’
That’s how they’ll have to do some of us. Far less likely to get a main battle rifle stuck up their ass and emptied in a public venue than on my property.
Hmm… Maybe the CDC can recommend rap concerts as part of its depopulation program. Should help in a certain demographic where the vaccines are not meeting expected KPIs. Put another $200 billion in the Infrastructure bill for rap concerts, legislate concert production over to a BlackRock monopoly, it’s all about equity and inclusion, etc?
We need to ban needles NOW!/sarc
A ‘mass-casualty incident’…ok. 8 dead from cardiac arrest (all at the same place) and no one has a clue how or why. Has that ever happened before?
11 heart attacks seems like a lot to me. Vaccine connected ? Weakened heart plus shock from the event ? I wonder.
Rap music sometimes has that effect on people.
They flipped the 5G on. That combined with the graphene oxide in the shot caused heart attacks. Human sacrifice at the satanic ritual. Same was done in Wuhan. They were dropping in the streets.
What is required to attend a concert ?
Regular breathing and a ticket.
The Who – Cincinati, OH 1979 Sometimes it just happens.
It can, but the Who incident was due to thousand of folks trying to get thru a small opening. This was wide open going toward an open stage. At best should have been broken limbs and/or crushed bodies. But heart attacks?? In young people? Something smells funny, especially since you had to be vaxxed to get into the concert.
Is a dose of heroin considered being vaxxed?
Only if the smack is cut with fentanyl and luciferase.
“Around 50,000 fans were in attendance…”
NOT my idea of a good time.
With 100,000 fans at a Pink Floyd concert. That WAS a good time.
A source connected to Astroworld tells TMZ, someone in the crowd went crazy and began injecting people with some sort of drug, which caused panic and then a surge.
Injecting people at a concert is something new for the FIB.
…the surge happened suddenly and played out over the course “of just a few minutes.” Resulting in cardiac arrest or a medical episode.
HAARP, a frequency weapon, 5G, a directed energy weapon… ? A crowd of 50,000 makes for a great opportunity to test out a weapon system.
Yes, I know how crazy this guess sounds, I’m just thinking outside of the government controlled box. People inside the box get bread and circuses but not truth.
Energy weapon (5G or not) doesn’t seem far fetched to me at all.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-appoints-new-coordinator-to-investigate-havana-syndrome-as-more-reports-surface/ar-AAQmQh2
Sounds completely crazy to me but in this world you could very well be correct.
Krazy is the new normal.
By next year, these will be the good ol days.
https://bityl.co/9ZYK Is the CDC going to suppress autopsies again? They haven’t been allowing them since the beginning of covid (just a few here and there) which seems like a huge red flag. What’s to find? What are they trying to hide? I think if we could look at the bodies we would learn much about the damage that’s been done by covid and/or the “operating system” that’s been inserted (Moderna’s description of their shot)
Eight persons (I don’t really think of the as people) dead because they have shitty taste in music.
Had not heard about this and read the Daily Mail article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10171759/Multiple-injuries-reported-Astroworld-Festival-Houston.html
This is down the page a bit, is interesting. Tells about everything one would need to know about a situation such as that. It can happen just about anywhere there is a huge crowd and it happens fast. The cardiac arrest occurs through the weight of living bodies upon each other.
Anybody whose taste in music is so bad that they like Rap music deserves whatever they get, up to and including death. And yes, I know – every generation says that the next generation’s music is awful. But Rap music truly is awful. It is not just a generational thing.
Your grandfather probably would say Rock music killed the US.
I have always found the phrase “Rap Music” to be completely oxymoronic.
Like ‘Jumbo Shrimp’ or ‘Government/Military Intelligence’.
Two things in one statement that are the exact opposite of each other.
Really bad really angry attempts at ‘poetry’ by simply trying to rhyme
a few words.
Sorry, NOT music.
And not poetry, either.
A group of dope heads listening to the words of the devil! What could go wrong? Things like this, spitting in God’s face is what is wrong with this country. We blaspheme God and ask for His blessing at the same time? Not gonna happen. Unless this country repents for it’s sin it is TOAST! God will NOT be mocked!
Mostly sounds like a powerful rush and casualties from a huge crowd that’s been psychologically pent up for way too long and I anticipate lots of disinfo communities will be adding unverified things to the story for various spins making it something it wasn’t.
Where was Anthony Fauci at this time?
Lena Hidalgo is an inept communist kid pretending to be our county judge and needs flying lessons from a tall building.
How is a guy named Travis Scott not a country singer? What’s next La’Jarvus Robinson playing bluegrass banjo?
That was my thought exactly. I had never heard of Travis Scott before this happened, but when I saw the headline my first thought was that it happened at a Country music concert.
What do you expect you fools? This guy is EVIL. The Kartrashians are evil. They are nothing but instruments of the devil, causing pain, suffering, chaos and depression for millions of lost girls and boys who look up to these demonically inspired freaks. They could care less about the tragedy. Life goes on. Nails need to be painted. Botox filled. More liposuction. Another hair appointment. Another first class flight on a private plane to a private island…oh yeah, they care…as they cash your stupid check.
It seems implausible that a single person could inject 11 others with a lethal dose of something in such a short time.
There must be more to this than what is being reported.
Consider this possibility: ‘Control of graphene by sound. 2017. Research and Science” Orwell.City reflections on this article from 2017. https://www.orwell.city/2021/11/sound-waves.html