Houston Police Division releases intensive 1,266-page report detailing the Astroworld tragedy investigation — Travis Scott’s lawyer says the timing of the report’s launch is deliberate.
On the heels of Friday’s launch of Travis Scott’s much-awaited newest album, Utopia, the Houston Police Division has launched their intensive 1,266-page report detailing their investigation into the Astroworld tragedy. The report follows the 18-month investigation into the ten deaths on the 2021 Astroworld crowd crush occasion.
Whereas police say that the report’s launch was “a coincidence,” Travis Scott’s lawyer Kent Schaffer contends the timing was a deliberate effort to affect gross sales of his new album. However even when Schaffer is appropriate, the plan appears to have failed, because the album reached practically 128 million first-day streams on Spotify — the most significant debut this 12 months and the fifth largest album streaming debut on the platform.
Final month, a grand jury refused to indict the rapper on legal expenses associated to the competition. Nonetheless, Scott nonetheless faces a number of lawsuits from victims and households of victims.
Travis Scott, who has stated that he’s “devastated” by the tragedy at Houston’s NRG Park by which ten folks have been killed — together with a nine-year-old boy — has requested that the lawsuits in opposition to him personally be dropped. An extra 300 folks have been handled for accidents at a subject hospital throughout the occasion.
The rapper beforehand claimed he had no concept that a number of folks have been being trampled and passing out within the crowd as he carried out in November 2021. However fan-captured footage reveals the rapper noticing an ambulance within the crowd, pointing at it, and asking, “What the f*** is that?” earlier than resuming the present.
Scott instructed police that he stopped the present after Drake left the stage when he was given directions in his earpiece to take action. In line with his attorneys, Travis was not charged with a criminal offense as a result of he adopted all directions from authorities throughout the incident.