The aunt of a 9-year-old boy who was injured at Friday’s Astroworld music festival tragedy in Houston and left in a medically induced coma is speaking out, calling the packed concert “a death trap.”
and left in a medically induced coma is speaking out, calling the packed concert “a death trap.”
“The crowd just started going crazy and Treston goes, ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’” Ezra’s aunt, Taylor Blount, said on TODAY. Doctors said Ezra suffered severe swelling in his brain and went into cardiac arrest at the concert or on the way to the hospital. Now he’s in a coma to minimize brain and heart function so the swelling can go down, Blount said, adding Ezra also suffered damage to his lungs, liver and kidney.
High-profile civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump said Monday night that he has been retained by Ezra’s parents. Crump said Ezra suffered brain trauma after he was trampled in a statement.