The family of a nine-year-old boy who died of injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston is suing rapper Travis Scott for at least $1 million. Ezra Blount of Dallas died Sunday at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, the youngest and the 10th fatality of the crowd surge on November 5 during a performance by the festival’s headliner, rapper Travis Scott.

Ezra was placed in a medically induced coma as he had suffered severe damage to his brain, kidney, and liver after being “kicked, stepped on, and trampled, and nearly crushed to death,” according to a lawsuit filed by his family against Scott and the event’s organizer, Live Nation.

9-year-old Dallas boy dies after Astroworld festival crush

“The Blount family tonight is grieving the incomprehensible loss of their precious young son,” family attorney Ben Crump said.

All the other nine victims ranged in age from 14 to 27, while hundreds more were injured.

Treston Blount, Ezra’s father, said the boy was sitting on his shoulders when a crowd surge crushed them. Treston said when he gained consciousness, Ezra was missing.

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It was only after filing a police report that he came to know that his son had been admitted to hospital for serious injuries. A GoFundMe page set up by Treston to cover expenses for the treatment of his son has collected over $80,000 in donations. “I began to be crushed until I couldn’t breathe,” Treston wrote.

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Last week, Crump announced lawsuits against Astroworld’s organizers on behalf of more than 100 people who attended the festival.

“Families lost their high school children, their college children, people were injured greatly and nobody should ever die from going to a concert,” he said at a news conference.

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 people at the show widely shared on social media.

(With AP Inputs)