‘Felt A Little Off’: Man Recalls Moving From Front Of Stage With 9-Year-Old Son At Travis Scott Astroworld Concert

DENVER (KCNC-TV) – Jesse Dahl and his 9-year-old son, Christiano, are grateful to beryllium backmost location successful Denver, harmless and sound. They flew to Houston past play to bask 1 of his son’s favourite artists, Travis Scott, astatine Astroworld, having nary thought it would extremity successful tragedy.

“What an escapade astatine the airport! My lad is sooooo excited, his archetypal level ride! Astroworld present we come!” Dahl wrote successful a Facebook post.

Videos amusement the brace happily enjoying a rollercoaster thrust erstwhile they arrived astatine Astroworld, conscionable hours earlier the performance began. Dahl said they’d been looking guardant to their travel for months. “It was billed all-ages, and fractional of it was a carnival for kids,” Dahl told KCNC-TV’s Mekialaya White via Zoom.

At astir 7 p.m., earlier the performance was acceptable to start, Dahl said they got person to the signifier successful anticipation of Scott’s performance. “My lad and I went to the beforehand we were conscionable lasting determination to instrumentality pictures. I told him I didn’t consciousness comfy due to the fact that if it gets excessively crowded there’s nary mode we’re going to get out,” helium recalled. “It conscionable felt a small off, to beryllium honest.”

Dahl says helium was capable to get to an elevated, backstage area. Then, a abbreviated clip later, a assemblage surged the signifier and things turned dangerous.

“Four 100 oregon 500 radical conscionable rushed in, and astir 20 constabulary officers connected horses came in. People’s arms were pinned up, and it wasn’t due to the fact that they were celebrating. It was truthful they could person country truthful they could breathe. They were conscionable cramped up, barricaded in, it’s conscionable similar they’re trapped and cipher could get out. And radical conscionable commencement jumping the railings, they’re conscionable jumping near and right.”

He continued to recount the scene, “There was a man laying connected the ground, they had his garment ripped unfastened and astatine that constituent his look was already blue. So, I don’t cognize however agelong helium was unconscious, they had 2 radical doing compressions. We didn’t cognize that it was arsenic atrocious arsenic it was.”

The performance ended abruptly. He says since then, he’s had terrible anxiousness and adjacent PTSD, but it’s healing to speech astir it. Dahl says an lawsuit that was expected to beryllium fun, shouldn’t person ended however it did. “You didn’t person clip to digest what was going on. I didn’t deliberation that we were successful a spot wherever radical were losing their lives and hopeless to get out.”

In the future, Dahl intends to bash much research. “I’m decidedly going to beryllium much forward-thinking and investigating these artists more.”