The father of the nine-year-old boy who was left in a coma after falling of his father’s shoulders and getting trampled at the Travis Scott Astroworld music festival has filed a lawsuit against the kletsrymer and concert organizers.
Ezra Blount was “catastrophically injured” when a packed crowd surged toward the stage during Scott’s set at the Astroworld concert on Friday night, said Blout’s lawyers.
The boy remains hospitalised in a medically-induced coma on life-support “in an attempt to combat his brain, liver, and kidney trauma,” the lawyers said.
Eight people were killed in the incident and hundreds more were injured while Scott continued his performance for another 40 minutes.
The lawsuit – filed on Tuesday – “alleges negligence in a great number of aspects, including crowd control, failure to provide proper medical attention, hiring, training, supervision, and retention,” the attorneys said.
Scott, Live Nation Entertainment and Texas festival production company ScoreMore are among the defendants named in the lawsuit.
The suit also alleges that the defendants failed to stop Scott’s performance until more than 40 minutes after authorities had declared a “mass casualty” event at the concert.
“This young child and his family will face life-altering trauma from this day forward, a reality that nobody expects when they buy concert tickets,” the lawyer said in the statement.
“Concerts and music festivals such as this are meant to be a safe place for people of all ages to enjoy music in a controlled environment,” he added. “None of that was true about the Astroworld Festival.”
Ezra Blount is “currently fighting for his life, and his parents will never know the same child they entered Astroworld with,” he said.
The other lawyer involved in the lawsuit added: “We plan to hold everyone who had a hand in this festival accountable for the horrifying and traumatic injuries that this helpless child sustained.”
Scott, along with concert organizers, are already facing a growing number of lawsuits by victims of the tragedy and their family members.
Authorities are still investigating the incident, including investigating separate reports of someone in the audience drugging people.
Several concertgoers had to be revived with anti-drug overdose medicine, including a security officer who police said appeared to have an injection mark in his neck.
Sources: BBC, Business Insider
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