Travis Scott will not face criminal charges over the Astroworld tragedy.
Hundreds of people were injured and 10 people, including a nine-year-old boy, died after a crowd crush at the rapper’s concert in Houston on November 5, 2021.
The father-of-two had been facing multiple lawsuits from family members of the deceased and fans that were injured.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said: “It is tragic that 10 innocent people were killed while trying to enjoy an evening of music and entertainment. But a tragedy isn’t always a crime, and not every death is a homicide.”
“No criminal charges will be filed in the incident.”
In a December 2021 interview with Charlamagne tha God, Travis vowed to “never” let anything like that happen again as he broke his silence on the tragedy for the first time.
Speaking about when he learned about the tragic events, the rapper said: “It wasn’t really until minutes until the press conference until I found out exactly what happened.”
”Even after the show, you know, you’re just kind of hearing things. I didn’t know the exact details until minutes before the press conference.”
“Even at that moment you’re kind of just like, you know, what?” he continued. “You just went through something and it’s like, wait what?”
He also revealed he was unaware that people had died at that time saying: “Nah. Until minutes before [the press conference]. The thing is like, people pass out, things happen at concerts. But something like that…it’s just like…”
The rapper also claimed he could not hear the screams of fans, saying: “Nah man, it’s so crazy because I’m that artist too. Like anytime you can hear something like that, you want to stop the show, you want to make sure the fans get the proper attention they need.”
“Anytime I could see anything like that, I did. I stopped like a couple times to just make sure everybody was OK. I really just go off the fans’ energy as a collective, call to response. I just didn’t hear that, you know, I got music, I got my in-ears, I just didn’t hear that.”
Speaking on his responsibility for the tragedy, he said: “Fans come to the show to have a good experience. I have a responsibility to figure out what happened here, a responsibility to figure out the solution. Hopefully this takes a first step into us as artists having more insight of what’s going on.”
”And the professionals to kind of surround and figure out more of the intel, whether it’s tech, whether it’s more of a response, whatever the problem is, to figure out that.”
”And in the future move forward in concert safety, make sure this never happens again.”
