These Are the Travis Scott Astroworld Victims Who Died in Concert Crush

The primary victims of the eight who died Friday at Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival in Houston had been recognized Saturday afternoon.

Franco Patino, 21, was a scholar on the College of Dayton from Naperville, Illinois. The school confirmed the mechanical engineering main’s dying to native station WHIO. He was a member of Society of Hispanic Skilled Engineers and the fraternity Alpha Psi Lambda. On social media, Patino joked about superior calculus equations and infrequently praised his “Dayton Household.” 

Rudy Peña, a person from Laredo, Texas, additionally died within the tragedy. His household confirmed his dying to local news outlet the Laredo Morning Times. They found he was useless round 12:30 a.m.

His sister Jennifer Peña instructed LMT, “My brother was the sweetest individual, pleasant, outgoing, he had many associates as a result of he was all the time there for everybody. Sure, he was an enormous fan of Travis, he beloved his music.”

Peña appeared to have not too long ago celebrated his twenty third birthday on social media.

A highschool in Houston additionally put out an announcement Saturday saying certainly one of its college students, a ninth grader, had been killed. The letter from Memorial Excessive Faculty reads, “Our hearts exit to the coed’s household and to his associates and our workers at Memorial. This can be a horrible loss, and your entire MHS household is grieving at present.” The scholar’s title has not been launched. Houston officers stated the victims ranged from 14 to 27. Two dozen individuals, together with a 10-year-old boy, had been hospitalized, and on-site medics handled greater than 300 individuals. Many are still missing.

One attendee described the sensation of the enormous crowd to The Daily Beast as “like drowning in quicksand.”

An enormous crowd on the Astroworld pageant in NRG Park surged ahead throughout the set by rapper Travis Scott, trampling these on the entrance. Attendees had complained in regards to the pageant and even notified event staff of the deadly chaos as it happened, however a lot of the workers ignored their pleas.

Although first responders had been on the scene at 9:30, minutes after the “mass casualty occasion started,” Scott’s set didn’t finish till 40 minutes later. The rapper, who famous an emergency car within the crowd earlier than persevering with his efficiency, stated he was “completely devastated by what occurred final evening.”