Western Washington University student among those killed at Astroworld festival
Excitement and adrenaline soon turned to panic and horror as a crowd of 50,000 descended into chaos at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday night. Unconscious bodies were lifted and surfed through the crowd, while other attendees begged for the concert to stop as they watched others around them collapse.
Hundreds of people, including a 10-year-old child, suffered injuries. Some were rushed from the NRG Park in Houston, where the festival took place, to hospitals. By Saturday afternoon, Houston鈥檚 mayor confirmed that 13 victims remain hospitalized, including five minors.
And eight people, ranging in age from 14 to 27, with one age unknown, were dead.
Axel Acosta, 21, was identified Sunday by his brother, Joel Acosta, as the man in a photograph circulated by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Texas, which was seeking the public鈥檚 help to identify the man.
Axel Acosta was a junior at Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he was majoring in computer science, his younger brother said Sunday. Axel Acosta was from Tieton, a community of fewer than 2,000 people in the Yakima Valley.
Axel Acosta was a fan of Scott, but had never been to one of his concerts before, said Joel Acosta, 19, who recalled driving his brother to the airport in Bellingham last Wednesday. From there, Axel Acosta rented a car and drove about 90 miles south to Seattle before flying to Houston for the music festival, his brother said.
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