A 9-year-old boy who was seriously injured at the Astroworld Festival on Friday night is in a medically induced coma in an attempt to overcome trauma to his brain, according to the boy's grandfather.
is in a medically induced coma in an attempt to overcome trauma to his brain, according to the boy's grandfather.
"When my son went to the concert, he had my grandson on his shoulder," Blount said. "All the people pushed in and he could not breathe so he ended up passing out because of all the pressure that was being applied to his body. And when he passed out, Ezra fell off his shoulder and fell into the crowd.
When the father regained consciousness, "instead of being seen or getting himself checked out, he went and tried to find Ezra and ended up finding him at the Texas Children's hospital," Blount said. The family is "devastated because this was supposed to be a father-son outing for them to bond and it has turned into something horrible and tragic," Blount said.
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