Astroworld latest – Boy, 9, fights for life after falling from dad’s shoulders & being trampled during Travis Scott gig

A NINE-year-old boy is fighting for his life in a children's hospital after falling from his dad's shoulders and being trampled during the deadly crowd disaster at rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld concert, The Sun has learned.

Little Ezra Blount fell after his dad passed out from the pressure of the crowd during a surge at the 50,000-strong gig in Houston, Texas, on Friday night.

The boy fell to the ground and was trampled by panicked fans during the chaos, his worried family has said.

"He’s still in a critical condition in an induced coma, we are praying and waiting," said Ezra's aunt Taylor Gabrielle Blount. She added he's suffering from increasingly worsening brain swelling and his organs are also damaged.

In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Taylor said she hasn't seen her nephew as only his parents are allowed at the moment - but doctors "hope the swelling goes down so he can start to live."

“We were told he wasn’t expected to live, but it’s been three days so we’re praying he pulls through. He’s a fighter," she added,

Taylor recounted the horror her brother Treston went through after waking up only to find his son had vanished while he was unconscious.

“My brother passed out in the crowd after the crowd began to push them," Taylor recounted.

"He had Ezra on his shoulders. When my brother woke up, he couldn't find him."

Authorities rushed him to the hospital without a name because little Ezra was found without his father, making the harrowing experience all the more difficult.

"At first he was checked into the hospital as a John Doe, so we had to find him," Taylor said. 

"I'm guessing because the paramedics had already taken him away. We think he fell into the crowd and was trampled."

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"My brother is so worried about Ezra, but he’s ok himself. His mother Tamra is in a very fragile state right now, she can’t speak yet."

FATHER AND SON FANS OF SCOTT

Taylor recalled how her nephew came to be a fan of Scott, which is why he and his father attended the concert.

"Ezra is phenomenal, he’s a fan of Fornite [the video game] which is how he was introduced to Travis Scott, and his father Treston is a fan, they loved him."

"They went together, it was meant to be a learning experience to introduce him to live music, but it turned into something else."

“Ezra loves to sing, both him and his father love performing," Taylor said.

“It's really disappointing. Travis being from Houston, he has a key to the city and something like this went on.

"They needed to take more precautions, there needed to be more security, more exits, a lot of people struggled to get out.

"It should have been stopped after the first death."

SCOTT "HASN'T LEARNED HIS LESSON"

When asked about Scott encouraging the crowd to be wild, Taylor referenced previous occasions where similar events occurred and even brought two separate charges against the musician.

"You would have hoped he’d have learned his lesson, but it seems he hasn’t," Taylor told The Sun.

“Ezra is about to turn 10 on December 13," she added. "He’s a very funny, outgoing little boy. He can talk to anybody, he’s an innocent child, it’s shocking this has happened to him.”

Ezra was one of 50,000 people crammed into pens at Astroworld over the weekend, where the death toll following Scott's concert remains at eight, with hundreds more injured.

Ezra's grandfather Bernon Blount also told of his shock at an apparent lack of safety preparedness before the concert.