Astroworld Fest

Travis Scott hit the stage at Miami’s E11EVEN Club in part of a Formula 1 Race Week celebration, marking his first public performance since his Astroworld Festival back in November.

The experiences of panicked concertgoers who couldn’t breathe and had no clear path to escape a massive crowd surge at last year’s deadly Astroworld music festival in Houston are featured in a new documentary.

Gil Fried, a crowd management expert and professor at the University of West Florida, breaks down how things went so wrong with Astroworld.

What exactly is a crowd surge? And how is it possible that eight people died at an event reportedly staffed by hundreds of police and private security officers?

NBCLX Producer Carlos Hernandez attended the Astroworld Festival in Houston. The event was packed, but from where he was, attendees didn’t know that eight people had died during a performance from rapper Travis Scott until after leaving the event.

The concertgoers at a highly anticipated Houston music festival Friday night say they were shocked to witness how the event brewed into pandemonium that left at least eight people dead.

Travis Scott’s high-energy performances are known for being fun-filled but chaotic shows with concertgoers encouraged to take part in a raucous nature involving mosh pits, crowd surfing and stage diving.

The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival have added to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event.

Several people were killed and dozens of others were injured at rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston at NRG Park

At least eight people died and numerous others were injured in what officials described as a surge of the crowd at the Astroworld music festival in Houston while rapper Travis Scott was performing.