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Kylie Jenner Defends Travis Scott after Deadly Concert
Kylie Jenner has released a statement expressing her sympathies to the victims of the Astroworld festival catastrophe, as well as her support for the festival’s organizer and her lover, Travis Scott, who has been chastised for not shutting down the concert sooner.
This comes after at least eight people died and many more injured during a crowd surge on the festival’s opening night.’
Jenner attended the event with her three-year-old daughter Stormi and sister Kendall Jenner, who is currently pregnant with her second child with Scott.
Jenner made it “clear” that she and Scott were “unaware of any fatalities” until after the event had ended in an Instagram statement, adding, “In no world would we have continued filming or performing.”
“Travis and I are broken and devastated,” Kylie, 24, said in a message on Saturday night, Nov. 6, on her Instagram Story. “My thoughts and prayers are with all who lost their lives, were injured or affected in anyway [sic] by yesterday’s events. And also for Travis who I know cares deeply for his fans and the Houston community.”
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“I am sending my deepest condolences to all the families during this difficult time and will be praying for the healing of everyone who has been impacted,” Jenner added.
he family was escorted out after security was summoned to the scene.
Jenner was chastised on social media for posting Instagram stories of the crowd, including one that seemed to show an ambulance struggling to get through.
Video from the event shows individuals asking for aid amid the turmoil as the music continued.
Many people have attacked Travis, 30, and the organizers on social media for not halting the livestreamed performance sooner, and attendees can be seen calling for aid and demanding to stop the event in footage released on social media. The event was called off about an hour after concertgoers were clearly upset, according to a video reconstruction by The Washington Post. Travis interrupted his act at least four times, according to the publication. He asked security to attend to a passed out fan, as witnessed on Apple Music’s live feed.
“An estimated crowd of 50,000 rushed the stage,” according to reports, with eleven individuals suffering cardiac arrest and 300 more being hospitalized for injuries. The concert’s victims ranged in age from 14 to 27.
Despite the fact that first responders arrived at 9:30 p.m. and a “mass casualty event” was declared, Scott’s set didn’t end for another 40 minutes, according to an official timetable obtained by The Daily Beast.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stated Saturday that “there are a lot of unanswered questions.”
“Over the next several days, several weeks — could be even longer — we’ll take an in-depth look at everything that took place, why it took place, what steps we can do moving forward to mitigate an incident of this kind from taking place at any other point in time.”
Travis had broken his silence over the incident earlier Saturday, writing that he was “absolutely devastated” by it. In an Instagram Story video, he expressed same sentiments, adding that he was trying to assist the families.
Seven of the eight victims have been identified: Brianna Rodriguez, a 16-year-old Houston high school junior; John Hilgert, a 14-year-old ninth grade student who went to a high school in the San Antonio area; Franco Patiño, a 21-year-old senior mechanical engineering student at the University of Dayton in Ohio; Jacob E. Jurinek, a 20-year-old junior at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, who attended the concert with Franco; Rudy Peña, a 23-year-old medical assistant and criminal justice student at Laredo College in Texas; Axel Acosta, a 21-year-old computer science student at Western Washington State; and Danish Baig, 27-year-old man from Euless, Texas who was killed during the crowd rush while trying to save his fiancée, his brother told CNN.
The musician said that all ticket holders would receive full refunds and that his upcoming show in Las Vegas has been canceled, writing on social media that he is “committed to working together with the Houston community to heal and support the families in need.”


