Body Bags: Chaos at Astroworld

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 25 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A chaotic opening night at the Astroworld Festival results in 10 people dead and hundreds more injured, as the crowd of 50,000 people surges toward the stage during Travis Scott's concert.

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0:00.0	I'm a bodybag with Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:22.1	Imagine going out with friends and family.
0:25.6	You've waited all this time.
0:27.5	You've gone online.
0:28.7	You've bought tickets.
0:29.7	You've got passes.
0:31.6	And the one thing that you want to hear
0:33.9	are the songs of your favorite performer.
0:38.2	It all turned to tragedy.
0:39.9	That astral world.
0:41.5	That concert put on by Travis Scott.
0:44.4	The day we're going to talk about the deaths of 10 people.
0:48.9	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan.
0:50.7	And this is Body Bags.
0:53.2	Back with me today is my good friend, Jackie Howard, executive producer of
1:03.0	crime stories with Nancy Grace.
1:05.8	Jackie, what can you tell us about this tragedy?
1:08.2	10 people died in a stampede at the astral world festival in Houston during
1:13.3	rapper Travis Scott's concert.
1:16.1	And now we do have a ruling by the Harris County medical examiner on those deaths.
1:21.4	Those victims were aged 9 to 27 years old.
1:25.0	And they died of compression asphyxia according to the examiner's report.
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