they did nothing,” she wrote, recalling that people in the crowd began booing her. Here were two people who could actually do something. She says she was ignored and so she pushed his camera toward one of the human sinkholes.Ī second man came up to the platform and “grabbed my arm, and told me he would push me off the 15ft platform with no sides if I didn’t get down,” she wrote. She spotted the cameraman filming the concert on a riser and climbed up the ladder to plead with him. Like people weren’t dead a few feet from them,” she wrote. “There were so many people just standing there. Pulled back into the crowd, McCarty somehow made her way toward the back, where someone pulled her over the guardrail. When she looked over, all she could see was feet pounding where his body had been. She said she became a shield for the man-“I think he smiled at me”-and then was shoved to the side. “There was a floor of bodies, of men and women, below two layers of fallen people above them. She was pushed toward the ground and “saw the body of a man. You have seen social media video of Ayden Cruz. She said she was pushed to the edge of what she called a “sinkhole of people” and put out her arms to stop others from falling. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) - As concertgoers were struggling to survive, at least two Astroworld fans tried desperately to get someone to stop the show. “We knew there was a very big chance some of us would not make it out alive.” A crowd at Travis Scott ’s Astroworld Festival in Houston unexpectedly began pushing toward the stage, causing panic and chaos, and leaving eight people dead, including a 14-year-old. “I began to realize in that moment there is a way to die that not many people know about. McCarty saw her friend dragged away and lost sight of her. You could not guess from which direction the shove of hundreds of people would come next. “It was like watching a jenga tower topple. There was nowhere to go.”Īs people fell, a hole in the crowd opened, and then more people fell into it. a riser in an attempt to notify a cameraman shouting that people were dying. “Hundreds of people ripped their vocal cords apart screaming for help, but we were not heard. The daylong Astroworld Festival created by Travis Scott left eight dead. “More people began to scream for help, some began to collapse. They could see security officers a short distance away but could not get their attention. “So, people began to choke one another as the mass swayed. “If someone's arms had been up it was no longer a possibility to put it down,” she said. and we found out when he left, he went straight to Dave & Buster. Trapped in the crowd, McCarty felt the shoving of those around her get harder, leaving even less space to move or breathe. Travis Scott says he didnt know a calamity was unfolding when he was onstage Friday at Astroworld.
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