Lawyer for Astroworld victim's family says crowd trampled 21-year-old's body 'like a piece of trash'
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- A type of killed within the Astroworld tragedy had his physique trampled over "like a bit of trash," a lawyer stated.
- Axel Acosta, 21, died as the gang crush "squeezed" the air out of his lungs, lawyer Tony Buzbee stated.
- Buzbee is representing Acosta's household and greater than 30 others who will file go well with towards Astroworld organizers.
One of many eight victims who died after a crowd surge at rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld music pageant had his physique "trampled" by different concertgoers "like a bit of trash," a lawyer representing his household stated Monday.
Axel Acosta, 21, of Washington state was among the many 50,000 followers on the sold-out Friday night time live performance at NRG Park in Houston when the chaos started during Scott's performance. He was crushed as a packed crowd surged towards the stage.
"When he collapsed, concertgoers making an attempt to flee their very own suffocation brought on by the gang rush trampled over his physique like a bit of trash," Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee, talking alongside Acosta's household, informed reporters.
Along with those killed, lots of have been left injured.
"Individuals concerned in a crowd rush get carried by a river of individuals uncontrollably," Buzbee stated on the press convention.
The lawyer continued, "Importantly, individuals which were concerned in crowd rush sometimes don't die from being trampled. They die from what is called compressive asphyxiation from the sheer drive of all the load of the our bodies being stacked on prime of them - that is precisely what occurred to Axel."
Buzbee stated that "the air was actually slowly squeezed out of" Acosta, "sending his coronary heart into cardiac arrest."
"Axel died on the muddy floor of a live performance that he attended for enjoyable," stated Buzbee, including, "Axel Acosta beloved rap music and he beloved the lineup that was going to be enjoying at Astroworld."
However, the lawyer stated, "that love and that feeling was not mutual."
Buzbee is representing Acosta's household together with no less than 35 others whom he says will quickly file a lawsuit towards the organizers of the pageant, together with live performance promoter Stay Nation and Texas-based pageant manufacturing firm ScoreMore.
Neither Scott nor live performance organizers "cared sufficient about Axel to make even a minimal effort to maintain him and others on the live performance protected," Buzbee stated, including, "I feel it's self-evident that this live performance was deliberate extremely poorly, that no regard was given to the security of the younger individuals" who attended.
Houston's police chief stated Monday that he spoke with Scott and concert organizers about his concerns for the crowd's safety.
In a press release to Insider, Reside Nation stated: "We proceed to help and help native authorities of their ongoing investigation in order that each the followers who attended and their households can get the solutions they need and deserve, and we'll handle all authorized issues on the applicable time."
ScoreMore didn't reply to Insider's requests for remark earlier Monday.
In a press release posted on-line on Monday, ScoreMore stated it was working with authorities as they investigate the deadly tragedy, including that the corporate's "complete workforce is mourning alongside the group."
On Monday, Buzbee referred to as Acosta's demise "unnecessary" and "pointless."
"Our aim is to make it possible for this good, respectable, strong, younger man didn't die for nothing," the lawyer stated.
Acosta's dad, Edgar Acosta, referred to as his son "an awesome child" who was learning to be an engineer or pc programmer.
"We're making an attempt to vary issues" with the lawsuit, Edgar stated. "As a result of in the present day it's me. I misplaced my son. It might have been you."
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