Travis Scott STOPS Coney Island July 4 concert after concertgoers dangle from truss: He already faces billion-dollar lawsuits from victims of Astroworld tragedy
- Travis Scott, 31, stopped his concert at Coney Island on Monday after fans climbed up the truss
- Several fans were seen climbing up the structure, with one bold fan even dangling backward off of it, with only his feet hooked in the bars keeping him up
- 'Hey, yo, listen, we need y'all to get down,' the singer's employee, Chase, said. 'If that s**t collapses, bro, it will be a bad vibe. We do not need that right now'
- The dad-of-two can also be heard saying: 'My brother, my brother, just make sure you're OK there, my brother'
- The rapper is currently tied up in billion-dollar lawsuits after the tragic Astroworld performance in Houston, Texas, in November
- Ten people died and thousands were reportedly injured after a crowd surge happened during the middle of the Texas performance
Travis Scott stopped his Coney Island July 4 concert after fans dangerously dangled from the truss as he faces billion-dollar lawsuits from the Astroworld victims.
Scott, 31, was in the middle of an energetic performance when he stopped it short and was seen waving toward security.
'Hey, yo, listen, we need y'all to get down,' the singer's employee Chase said. 'If that s**t collapses, bro, it will be a bad vibe. We do not need that right now.'
'Respectfully, you guys got to get down,' he said.
Videos posted across various social media platforms show a large group of guys clinging to the truss slowly begin to make their way down on one side.
Another fan, who was wearing what appeared to be a Spiderman costume, however, leaned backward off the truss, with only his feet hooked in the bars.
The concertgoer was seen aggressively shimmying his chest and arms before pulling himself up and looking directly at Scott.
The dad-of-two can be heard saying: 'My brother, my brother, just make sure you're okay there, my brother.'
Travis can then be heard saying in a worried tone: 'Come on, man.'
Travis Scott (pictured yesterday) temporarily stopped his show after fans climbed on the truss and dangerously dangled off it. He was seen waving down his employee, Chase, who told the guys to 'respectfully' get down. 'If that s**t collapses, bro, it will be a bad vibe. We do not need that right now,' Chase said
A group of fans can be seen climbing the truss during the July 4 concert
One of them, who appeared to be wearing a Spiderman costume, boldly leaned backward off the truss, with only his feet hooked in the bars
From another angle, taken earlier in the song, the rapper can be seen jumping around on stage and even falling toward fans while looking directly at the people climbing up the truss. He continues to perform for at least 40 seconds before temporarily stopping the show.
Other fans at Monday's concert in New York City were seen moving barriers around on a high platform and forcing their way up to get a better view.
Another song began playing, but Scott doesn't manage to sing a lyric before he started fanning his hand in front of the concertgoers, telling them to 'back up' before starting again.
One fan, Bethany Woodcock, shared a video of her looking frightened to her TikTok, in what she claimed to be in a mosh pit where 'everyone [was] two hand shoving each other.'
Woodcock claimed in the video to have woken up with 'bruises and scrapes' on her arms and said she was afraid she was 'going to be fully trampled.'
The five-foot-three woman can be seen in the video getting knocked around by other fans and at one point appears to be pushed down a little.
After pulling himself up, he flashed a heart sign to Scott, who said: 'My brother, my brother, just make sure you're okay there, my brother'
Bethany Woodcock (pictured) said she feared she'd get 'fully trampled' while the crowd was 'two hand shoving each other,' she claimed
Other fans were seen moving barriers around a high platform and climbing up to get a better view
The weak barrier was easily removable as concertgoers several scaled up the truss
The boyfriend of Kylie Jenner faces several billion-dollar lawsuits for the Astroworld tragedy, where 10 concertgoers died from compression asphyxia during a massive crowd surge in November. The youngest victim was only nine years old.
The singer has dodged taking responsibility for the tragedy, at one point blaming his 'in-ear' person for not stopping the show, despite the crowd begging for him to do so.
In a lawsuit filed in May, Scott's Houston performance is accused of injuring almost 5,000 people, with 732 being listed as severely injured.
Approximately 50,000 people attended the sold-out Astroworld Festival at NRG Park in November. Witnesses said the chaos broke out after Scott took the stage to perform.
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The surge happened at 9:15pm and the 'mass casualty incident' was declared at that time. Nearly an hour later, at 10:10pm, the concert producer Live Nation halted the show.
Hundreds of people were filmed stampeding through a VIP entrance at the Live Nation-organized event earlier that evening, sparking fears of overcrowding and poor crowd control.
Scott continued to perform after eight people were crushed to death, in what one witness described as a 'floor of bodies.'
Video circulating on Twitter shows fans chanting 'stop the show' as concertgoers were being knocked down and crushed by other attendees.
The ten Astroworld fatal victims - (clockwise) Madison Dubiski, 23; John Hilgert, 14; Bharti Shahani, 22; Axel Acosta, 21; Brianna Rodriguez, 16; Mirza Baig, 27; Franco Patino, 21; Jacob Jurinek, 21; Rodolfo Angel Peña, 23; and Ezra Blount, 9
Around 2pm hundreds of fans stormed the festival's VIP entrance. About seven hours later the surge in front of the main stage killed 10 people but the two events appear to be unrelated
Although he completed his 75-minute performance, at one point Scott was filmed calling for help. In another video, he stood on a platform with his microphone while chaos unfolded beneath him.
The rapper even appeared to glance in the direction of passed-out fans as the show went on. Scott eventually halted the performance at least once was filmed calling for security to help distressed fans in the front row.
But other videos from the night showed distraught fans begging concert staff to halt the performance and help people escape the surge.
'People are f***ing dying, I want to save somebody's life,' a man said as he climbed on a platform where a cameraman was filming the performance.
'That's somebody's kid! I want to save them!' he screamed - but to no avail.
VICTIMS OF TRAVIS SCOTT'S ASTROWORLD FESTIVAL
Ten people died at Travis Scott's music festival in Houston, Texas, with the victims ranging in age from 9 to 27.
John Hilgert, 14
John Hilgert, 14
John Hilgert, of Hunters Creek Village, was identified as one of the concert fatalities on Saturday by officials at Memorial High School, where he was a freshman student.
Hilgert attended the concert with his long-time friend Robby Hendrix, 15.
Henrdix's mother, Tracy Faulkner, bought her son's ticket for his birthday and 'ultimately regrets the decision'.
'Everything about that night was a tragedy,' Faulkner told the Houston Chronicle. 'They were both in the same place at the same time and one came home and one we will never see.'
She said Hilgret and Hendrix had known each other for years and played football together.
'John was a good student and athlete and so polite. He was the sweetest and smartest young man,' she shared.
Brianna Rodriguez, 16
Brianna Rodriguez, 16
Brianna Rodriguez was a dancer and junior in high school. Her family confirmed that she was one of the victims who died.
A GoFundMe account set up by her family described her as a 'beautiful vibrant 16-year-old'.
'Dancing was her passion and now she's dancing her way to heaven's pearly gates.'
Jacob Jurinek, 20
Jacob Jurinek attended the concert with his best friend Franco Patino when both were trampled to death. The pair grew up in the same Illinois town of Naperville.
A friend, going by the name Ana Lissa Marie, was distraught at the death of Jurinek, who was studying art and media at Southern Illinois University, and had traveled to Houston with Patino to celebrate Jurinek's birthday.
'I lost all my respect for Travis Scott,' she tweeted.
'What happened was absolutely disgusting. RIP to all the ones that lost their lives. To Jacob Jurinek, you will be missed kid. thank you for all the laughs.
'My condolences go to all the families that lost lives.'
Other victims included University of Dayton student Franco Patino (right), 21, who was attending the event with his best friend, 20-year-old Jacob Jurinek, when both were trampled to death
Franco Patino, 21
The University of Dayton confirmed to DailyMail.com that student Franco Patino of Naperville, Illinois, attended the concert in Houston.
The mechanical engineering technology major was involved in several campus extracurriculars and had most recently been working in a co-op program in Mason, Ohio.
University president Eric F Spina extended his sympathy and prayers to Patino's loved ones and the campus community.
Patino's fraternity, Alpha Psi Lambda, also issued condolences to his friends and family.
'It is with a very heavy heart, Alpha Psi Lambda National, Inc shares that our brother, Franco 'Cuauhocelotl' Patino, has passed on to Omega Chapter,' the organization wrote on Facebook.
'We extend our condolences to his family, friends, Alpha Nu Chapter and all that share in this loss. May his memory be eternal.'
The college senior joined the fraternity's University of Dayton chapter a year earlier.
Patino (left) and Jurinek grew up in the same Illinois town and were best friends
Axel Acosta, 21
Edgar Acosta held a press conference with Texas attorney Tony Buzbee to announce he was suing over the death of his son Axel Acosta, who had traveled from Washington to attend the festival - his first concert.
Axel Acosta, 21
'They need to make things change in these type of events,' he said.
'Today it was me. I lost my son. It could've been you,' Acosta said.
'When you send your kid to have some fun, because somebody else is not providing the right... I don't know I can explain. The right security.
'Because it is not the first time that he has been in big events, right?
'You can go to Disneyland and have fun. You can go to a baseball game and have fun. Because they have the right security, the right people, some people assisting those injured.
'It's hard to explain.'
Rodolfo 'Rudy' Peña, 23
Peña, of Laredo, Texas, died of cardiac arrest after being injured at the show.
He was a medical assistant and criminal justice major with aspirations to become a model and dreamed of one day being a US Border Patrol agent.
'What happened this past weekend is a direct result of what happens when the pursuit of financial gain and fame take precedence over protecting the lives of the innocent,' said Almaraz Law Firm, representing the Peñas, in a statement.
'It is a testament to the current state of live events and the greed that runs rampant in this industry.
'Nobody should feel unsafe enjoying something they love, and unfortunately this is exactly what has transpired.
'We vow to work diligently and responsibly to bring justice to the Peña family and to all afflicted, and we will not rest until these voices have been heard loud and clear.
'We will hold responsible parties accountable and fight to ensure that something positive comes of this unmitigated disaster. Something must change. Something will change.'
Rodolfo 'Rudy' Peña, 23
Madison Dubiski, 23
Madison Dubiski of Cypress, Texas, was identified as one of the victims.
The former Ole Miss student was yanked from her brother Ty, who tried to pull her to safety, in the surge and disappeared in the crowd.
Dubiski studied at the University of Mississippi between 2016 and 2017 and worked in advertising and marketing. She went to Cy-Fair High School, where she was a Varsity cheerleader and member of National Charity League, a community service organization for mothers and their daughters in middle and high school.
Friends said that her mother Michelle was her best friend and that she was very close with Ty, who graduated from Cy-Fair in 2019.
Madison Dubiski, 23
Danish Baig, 27
Basil Mirza Baig took to Facebook Saturday announcing that his brother, Danish Baig also died at Astroworld.
'My brother was killed in this horrendous event that was managed poorly and supervised by such horrible people,' Baig wrote.
'People were trampled, walked and stomped on. My brother tried to save my sister-in-law from these horrendous acts that were being done to her in the process he lost his life.'
Baig described Danish as a beautiful soul who put everyone before himself.
'Last night he showed his courageous act to save my sister-in-law from those horrendous things that were being done. I am lost of words and in true trauma from this event,' he added.
'I was there and I wasn't able to save my brother. People were hitting pushing and shoving and did not care for anyone's life.'
Baig also accused the rapper of provoking the chaos by 'calling people to the stage to jump into the crowd' and for 'not stopping the show'.
'This is not the end,' Baig warned. 'My family and I will go to the full extent to make sure he is brought to justice.'
Danish Baig, 27
Bharti Shahani, 22
Bharti Shahani, a senior at Texas A&M, died from injuries sustained at Astroworld
Shahani, a Texas A&M senior, was critically injured at Astroworld and was on a ventilator at Houston Methodist Hospital, where she was taken after the concert.
She was declared brain dead and was taken off the ventilator shortly thereafter. She was the ninth person to die from the crowd surge.
It was the first festival Shahani had ever attended, her family said.
Her family's attorney, James Lassitier, said: 'Bharti was a shining star in the community.'
'She was a sister, a daughter, a high-achieving college student about to graduate from Texas A&M University with high, high grades.'
Ezra Blount, 9
Blount was the tenth - and youngest - person to die from injuries sustained at Astroworld Festival.
He had been trampled at the concert, placed in a medically induced coma and was on life support for a week before he succumbed to his injuries.
The young boy had spent the concert seated on the shoulders of his father, Treston Blount.
Treston passed out from lack of oxygen and, once we regained consciousness, was unable to locate his son.
By the time the father-son pair were reunited, Blount had suffered swelling in his brain as well as 'trauma in nearly all organs.'
Ezra Blount (right) and his father, Treston Blount (left), are pictured at Astroworld
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