The paramedics couldn’t even reach the crowd,” he said. “There wasn’t enough security guards and there wasn’t enough EMTs and people helping out the crowd. Nasser, who works as a DJ, said he just wanted the music to stop as people continued to party without “paying attention to the bodies dropping behind them.”ĭespite yelling at the camera and light technicians and asking them to alert Scott to stop the festival, Nasser said there wasn’t enough staff on hand to handle the situation. “Kids were dropping left and right,” he said. And I just had to leave him there, there was nothing I could do. “I picked some kid up and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, so I checked his pulse. See the moment Travis Scott pauses his show after spotting an ambulance It felt like there was little humanity in that crowd.” “I looked around and just saw people stare and others continuing to enjoy themselves as if these people meant nothing. I felt like it was a nightmare,” she said. “I was beginning to go into shock, although I was trying to keep my composure and not panic. “People did not care, they still tried to squeeze through just to get to the front without thinking of the consequences and who it would affect.”Īfter someone pulled her up, Beltran said, she tried to help four other people she found passed out by taking turns performing CPR on them with a nurse she met in the crowd. It was insane to see so many just run others over like wild animals,” she said. “I was shocked to see people act so inconsiderate and feral. I just screamed.”ĭespite seeing people who had clearly lost consciousness, Beltran said, people continued trampling those who were on the ground. It was all happening so fast, but so slow and I couldn’t react. To think that’s how I’ll die, I was so scared,” Beltran told CNN. “I fell backwards and it felt like it was the end for me. 'Beyond your control.' The recipe for a deadly crowd crush Travis Scott performs on day one of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park on Nov. “Imagine listening to Travis Scott and people screaming for their lives at the same time.”ĭespite his attempts and other bystanders’ efforts to administer CPR to those who weren’t breathing, “there was just not enough people to help everyone,” he said. “Everybody was crying it was the scariest sound I’ve ever heard,” Tellez said. People packed on top of him, some losing consciousness. People around Tellez began to fall, he said, at some point causing him to fall as well. ‘It was the scariest sound I’ve ever heard’
Here’s more of what Tellez and others witnessed: Those who survived had to fight their way out of the crowd as the music raged on.
The dead ranged in age from 14 to 27.Ĭoncertgoers described the event as traumatizing, with many witnesses saying they saw lifeless bodies being trampled amidst the chaos. Nobody could move a muscle.”Īt least eight people were killed and dozens injured in the ensuing crush that, according to people at the concert, apparently overwhelmed event staff and medical personnel at NRG Park. People were screaming for their lives, and they couldn’t get out. “We were all screaming for help, and no one helped or heard us. When Travis came out performing his first song, I witnessed people passing out next to me,” Tellez, 20, told CNN. “The crowd became tighter and tighter, and at that point it was hard to breathe. The crowd surged forward while Scott was on stage. It began an hour before Travis Scott was set to perform, as Tellez and his girlfriend stood near the stage in hopes of getting a better view of the rapper.īut before Scott even came out, things got ugly, fast. But nothing, he says, could have prepared him for the tragedy that unfolded Friday night at the Astroworld Festival in Houston.
TK Tellez knows that festivals can get crazy.
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