A 9-year-old boy who fell off his father’s shoulders and was trampled at Travis Scott’s Astroworld show is still fighting for his life.
Treston Blount, the father of Ezra, said Friday that his son remains on life support.
“I could tell that he was damaged,” Blount told ABC 13. “I’m not ready to lose my boy at all. We still got a bunch of living to do. ... That’s my boy.”
Ezra, who his father described as a huge Scott fan, was on his dad’s shoulders when Treston fell unconscious in the the out-of-control crowd. By the time Treston came to, Ezra had seemingly vanished.
Eventually, the Blounts tracked Ezra down at a local hospital, where he had been admitted as a John Doe.
Doctors found severe swelling in Ezra’s brain and the young boy went into cardiac arrest at the concert or on the way to the hospital, according to a lawsuit obtained by the Daily News. Ezra also suffered liver and kidney damage after being “kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and nearly crushed to death.”
The Blounts, with the help of civil rights attorney Ben Crump, have filed a lawsuit against Scott, ScoreMore Management, Live Nation Entertainment, Cactus Jack Records and others. In total, more than 100 lawsuits have been filed after the deadly concert that left nine people dead, many accusing Scott of negligence.
The rapper’s attorneys have decried the finger-pointing, saying Scott cannot be held responsible for the crowd and that he had no idea how rowdy his audience got.
“Travis didn’t really understand the full effect of everything until the next morning. Truly he did not know what was going on,” one of his lawyers, Edwin F. McPherson, said on “Good Morning America” Friday.
“Understand that when he’s up on the stage and he has flashpots going off around him and he has an ear monitor that has music blasting through it and his own voice, he can’t hear anything, he can’t see anything.”
Scott has offered to pay for the funerals of the concertgoers and therapy for the survivors.
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