More than 20 lawsuits have already been filed, accusing organisers of failing to take simple crowd-control steps or staff properly. 9News
, including a nine-year-old boy whose family said was in a coma.
Bernon Blount said his grandson, Ezra, was in a medically induced coma on Tuesday at a Houston hospital and that the boy's heart, lungs and brain were injured in the melee. "The key in properly dealing with this type of scenario is proper management of the crowd from the minute the doors open. He said a group of four firefighters were stationed inside a mobile command van in a nearby parking lot starting at 7am on Friday.
Houston police and fire department investigators have said they are reviewing surveillance video provided by concert promoter Live Nation, as well as dozens of clips from people at the show that were widely shared on social media.The dead ranged in age from 14 to 27 and came from Texas, Illinois and Washington state, according to Harris County authorities.READ MORE:
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