Travis Scott will not face prison fees for his position in the deadly Astroworld festival, a Houston grand jury resolved Thursday.
10 individuals died and hundreds much more were being wounded in the Astroworld group crush, which took position in November 2021, as followers flowed toward the phase to see the rapper execute. The concert was declared a mass casualty event at 9:38 p.m., but the live performance continued until finally 10:15 p.m.
Officers previously introduced all 10 people — the youngest of whom was 9 years aged — died of compression asphyxia thanks to pressures from the surrounding group. An approximated 50,000 persons had been at the festival, which is under the greatest potential of 200,000 underneath Houston hearth code.
In addition to headlining the festival, Scott was just one of Astroworld’s promoters, alongside with Stay Country and ScoreMore. All 3 nonetheless confront a lot of civil lawsuits accusing them of negligence, wrongful loss of life and much more.
“Our occupation is to identify if this tragedy — this complete disastrous, horrific event — involved criminal activity by any one,” Harris County Dist. Atty. Kim Ogg said Thursday during a press meeting. “When we have incidents like this transpire, and we are not distinct no matter if a crime happened or not … it is our apply to get these scenarios just before grand juries.”
Houston Police Main Troy Finner included that his office environment will release a report of its investigative conclusions to the community.
“It was a quite sophisticated investigation, with a large amount of shifting components,” Finner claimed. “I spoke to the mayor, and mentioned, ‘We have to set this 1 out.’ It’s unprecedented. It is virtually 1,200 pages … it’s important. And especially for the households, who have been waiting around a calendar year and 7 months. Which is who my heart goes out to.”
“My shopper Travis Scott will not be billed with criminal expenses or any wrongdoing for his involvement with AstroWorld festival,” a consultant for Scott advised The Moments in a assertion. “Today’s conclusion by the Harris County District Lawyer confirms what we have known all alongside — that Travis Scott is not liable for the AstroWorld tragedy … While waiting around patiently for the District Attorney’s final decision to not file rates, Travis Scott has been inaccurately and wrongly singled out, irrespective of stopping the show three independent occasions and being unaware of the gatherings as they had been unfolding. Now that this chapter is closed, we hope for the govt endeavours to concentrate on what is most significant — stopping potential heartbreaking tragedies like AstroWorld from ever taking place all over again.”
In March, Scott carried out at the Rolling Loud competition at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park. It marked his to start with festival visual appeal due to the fact Astroworld.
“He appeared gratified to reclaim his job as king of the pit, even if he stopped brief of exhorting the group toward the variety of wild actions he applied to demand from customers,” wrote The Times’ Mikael Wood of Scott’s established. “Short as it was, the performance was efficient in that it demonstrated the condition of a important brand name unchanged by controversy.”
Scott has been teasing his forthcoming “Utopia” album, lately installing mysterious marketing billboards close to Los Angeles.
