A third concertgoer – Aisha Stephens – died on Thursday after a stampede at GloRilla and Finesse2tymes’ show at Rochester, New York. Rhondesia Belton and Brandy Miller were named as the other two fatalities.
The stampede took place on late Sunday night during rappers GloRilla and Finesse2Tymes’ concert at the 5,000-capacity venue. The Rochester Police Department responded to Armory shortly after 11 PM. Initially reports said that shots were fired inside the location.
“I’m just now hearing about what happened wtf praying everybody is ok,” Gloria Hallelujah Woods, known as the Grammy-nominated rapper GloRilla, posted on Twitter.
Police officers found several people injured at the venue. One of them was pronounced dead on the spot.
Six individuals were dropped off by private vehicles at local hospitals with “non-life-threatening injuries related to this same event.”
Aisha Stephens was 35 years old. Belton was 33 and Miller 35.
Stephens had been critically injured at the Main Street Armory concert.
“Upon further investigation, it was determined that none of the injuries sustained to any of the victims were consistent with a person being shot,” police said at the time. “At this time there is no evidence to support a shooting having occurred inside the event.
“The injuries appear to be as a result of a large crowd pushing towards the exits following accounts of individuals hearing what they believed to be gunshots,” they added.
A local boxer named Alonzo “Big Zo” Butler claimed Finesse2Tymes’ entourage was behind the shooting. The rapper however denied the allegations.
“Yall goofy MTFs betta quit lying on my name, aint nobody robbed no damn body,” he wrote on Snapchat. “This on my kids them folk tried to set me up so they wouldn’t have 2 pay a n-gga duh backend.”
Two men have been charged in connection with the shooting. Jackie Netterville, 22, and Gino Mickens, 20 were charged with reckless endangerment.