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Proceed with caution. On the 4th of July, Travis Scott performed at Coney Island and told fans to calm down during his set. The Astroworld artist stopped his concert multiple times to make sure that his fans were okay.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Travis Scott and organizers behind the Astroworld Festival will not face criminal charges related to the deaths of 10 people who were suffocated when the crowd rushed the stage during his performance at the festival in October 2021. A grand Jury in Houston made the ruling on Thursday, according to the Houston Chronicle. 50,000 fans attended the show, which led to a surge during Scott’s performance at the festival outside NRG Park.  At a press conference following the concert, Houston fire chief Samuel Peña clarified the timeline. He said that the crowd began surging forward at 9 p.m., as there was panic involving people running for safety. At that point, Scott paused his set several times to ask security to help out fans, and members of the fire department were sent into the dense crowd to rescue the injured.

Ten people died and hundreds more were injured during a mass-casualty crowd crush that occurred during Travis Scott‘s headline set at Astroworld Festival last month (November 5).According to Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña, “at approximately 9.15pm the crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage. And that caused some panic and it started causing some injuries.”The incident is the focus of the 50-minute news special, called Astroworld: Concert From Hell.

Travis Scott’s lawyer has said the rapper “did not know what was going on” during his set at Astroworld festival.Nine people died and hundreds more were injured during a “mass casualty” event that happened while Scott was onstage at the event last weekend.In the days since, Houston Police chief Troy Finner has said he “expressed concerns” to Scott regarding safety at the event in the days leading up to Astroworld while Houston Fire chief Samuel Pena has since claimed that Scott should have

Travis Scott should have stopped his Astroworld show earlier to prevent the crowd surge that killed eight people.Speaking on NBC’s TODAY show, chief Samuel Pena explained that officials are beginning to get “some picture” of what could have caused last Friday’s (November 5) tragedy in Texas.“It seems as though the crowd began to try to push towards the front to get as close to the stage as they could when Mr Scott’s set began,” Pena explained.“And what was happening is the barricades that were

Questions have emerged about how much communication first responders with the Houston Fire Department were given on the day of the deadly Astroworld Festival tragedy.  Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena previously stated on "America’s Newsroom" Tuesday that, although the department was not part of the comprehensive safety plan which included police and medical responders inside the venue, he made the decision to pre-deploy department resources outside the event to be on standby.  While they did not

The city of Houston’s fire department chief is sharing his early thoughts and reactions to the Astroworld Festival tragedy that has devastated the city and concert-goers everywhere this week.

Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena appeared on the "Today" show Tuesday where he updated the public on the investigation into the deaths at Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival. During the interview, Pena seemingly blamed the rapper for not doing more to control the crowd from the stage.  "Look we all have a responsibility, everybody at that event has a responsibility, starting with the artist on down," he told Savannah Guthrie.

Travis Scott bears responsibility for the tragedy that occurred at the Astroworld festival in Houston last week, according to the city’s fire chief, Samuel Pena.

More details of the deadly incident at a Houston music festival have been revealed. On Friday night, rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld was rocked by at least eight deaths and numerous injuries in what officials described as a surge of the crowd at Astroworld while the musician was performing.

Associated Press. Saturday’s performances at the sold-out festival have been canceled.

During Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld Festival, at least eight attendees were pronounced dead and more injured after a crowd rushed the stage.

Travis Scott‘s Astroworld music festival has ended in tragedy, with eight people confirmed dead and hundreds left injured. It came after a massive stampede at the November 5 event held at NRG Park in Travis’ native Houston. Fire Chief Samuel Peña said the worst incident occurred around 9:15 pm, when around 50,000 surged towards the stage. “The crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage, and people began to panic,” he told CNN. 

At least eight people were killed and several others were injured at Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night. The event was organized and headlined by Travis Scott and attended by over 50,000 people in NRG Park.

At least eight people died and numerous others were injured in what officials described as a surge of the crowd at the Astroworld music festival in Houston while rapper Travis Scott was performing.

William Earl Tragedy struck Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival as crowd surges during his Friday night headlining set left 8 dead and over 300 injured, according to Houston officials.50,000 fans surged during Scott’s performance at the festival outside NRG Park, the Houston Chronicle reports. At a press conference following the tragedy, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña outlined the timeline.

Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival on Friday night (November 5), with hundreds more sustaining injuries from a crowd surge.The “mass-casualty” incident happened during Scott’s headline performance at the event. According to Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña, “at approximately 9.15pm the crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage.

HOUSTON -- Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and several others have been injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival.Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena told reporters the compression of the crowd toward the stage occurred while Travis Scott was performing.The surge happened around 9 p.m. Friday night.

Two police officers were shot Tuesday in southwest Houston, authorities said. The scene near the 2600 block of Holly Hall Street remains “active,” and a SWAT team was called for “a possible barricaded suspect,” Houston police said.

HOUSTON – An arson investigator and an arson suspect were killed during a shootout early Friday in Houston after the investigator pursued the suspect, city police and fire officials said. Investigator Lemuel Bruce, 44, died at a hospital where he was taken after the shooting around 3:30 a.m.