A 9-year-old injured at the Astroworld Festival is in a medically induced coma, family says

By Raja Razek, CNN

A 9-year-old lad who was earnestly injured astatine the Astroworld Festival connected Friday night is successful a medically induced coma successful an effort to flooded trauma to his brain, according to the boy’s grandfather.

Bernon Blount told CNN his grandson, Ezra Blount, was successful municipality to spot “his favourite artist” and attended the performance with his father, Treston Blount.

“When my lad went to the concert, helium had my grandson connected his shoulder,” Blount said. “All the radical pushed successful and helium could not respire truthful helium ended up passing retired due to the fact that of each the unit that was being applied to his body. And erstwhile helium passed out, Ezra fell disconnected his enarthrosis and fell into the crowd.

When Bernon’s lad came to, his grandson Ezra had already been taken to the infirmary arsenic a John Doe. “They did not cognize thing astir him, his sanction oregon thing due to the fact that helium got separated from my son,” Bernon said.

When the begetter regained consciousness, “instead of being seen oregon getting himself checked out, helium went and tried to find Ezra and ended up uncovering him astatine the Texas Children’s hospital,” Blount said.

“During the lawsuit astatine the concert, helium had cardiac apprehension which damaged his heart,” helium said. “He has harm to the liver, his lungs … and connected apical of that, helium has swelling connected his brain,” Blount said. CNN has not been capable to independently corroborate Ezra’s aesculapian presumption with the hospital.

The household is “devastated due to the fact that this was expected to beryllium a father-son outing for them to enslaved and it has turned into thing horrible and tragic,” Blount said.

“There needs to beryllium accountability, not conscionable from the creator oregon the lawsuit planners, but besides from the metropolis of Houston,” Blount added.

Attorneys Ben Crump of Ben Crump Law and Alex and Bob Hilliard of Hilliard Martinez Gonzalez person been retained by the parents of Ezra Blount, according to a connection from the attorneys.

“The suffering that this household is going done is immeasurable. This small lad had his full beingness up of him — a beingness that is presently hanging successful the equilibrium due to the fact that of the reckless mismanagement that ensued astatine the Astroworld Festival,” lawyer Crump said successful the statement.

The household has established a GoFundMe to enactment Ezra’s recovery.