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The Show Mustn’t Go On
May 1, 2025
How do you prepare for the unthinkable? The short answer: you don’t. You cannot plan for
something that wouldn’t occur to you in a million years: like your baby girl not returning home from a concert; from what should have been a wonderful night out with friends, and one of the most benign activities imaginable.
Yet, for 10 children, teenagers, and young adults Astroworld Festival 2021 turned from a joyful gathering into an unimaginable nightmare, when they got swallowed up in a crowd surge that claimed their lives. All victims died from compression asphyxia – the term to describe an external force limiting the ability to expand one’s chest, making it impossible to breathe.
The most devastating finding in the aftermath of the Astroworld stampede, however, came from the investigation of the Houston police department, which found that all ten deaths, as well as injuries, sustained at the 2021 Astroworld Festival could have been prevented.
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The Deadly Astroworld Tragedy Sparked An Urgent Safety Debate. Then, One Family Took Action.
Jun 13, 2025
The parents of Madison Dubiski said it’s been a “hard pill to swallow” to know the entire tragedy was preventable. It’s hard to forget the calamitous events of the 2021 Astroworld Festival, as what began as a carefree Travis Scott-run concert event quickly spiraled into a harrowing nightmare. On Nov. 5, 2021, at NRG Park in […]
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Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
Jun 10, 2025
A new Netflix documentary takes us back to the fateful Astro World Festival, a Travis Scott concert right here in Houston where people were crushed in a crowd surge. 10 people died in the chaos, including 23 year old Madison Dubisky. FOX 26 Houston: Watch Segment
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