9-Year-Old Texas Boy Ezra Blount Dies After Astroworld Festival Crush: Lawyer

This photo provided by Taylor Blount shows Ezra Blount, 9, posing outside the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Nov. 5, 2021. Ezra has become the youngest person to die from injuries sustained during a crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival. Ezra, of Dallas, died Sunday, Nov. 14 at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, family attorney Ben Crump said. Courtesy of Taylor Blount via AP

The lawyer for the family of a 9-year-old boy who was trampled at a Travis Scott concert in Houston said the child died from his injuries on Nov. 14.

Ezra Blount became the 10th person to die from injuries suffered in a stampede during the Astroworld Festival. The boy had been in a medically induced coma for about a week after being injured during the incident, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his father, Treston Blount.