As headliner and festival founder Travis Scott took the stage around 9:00 PM, the crowd of approximately 50,000 began to surge forward. This movement created a "slow compaction" or "crush" in several barricaded pens, most notably the southwest quadrant where seven of the ten victims died.
On-site medical teams were quickly overwhelmed. Reports indicated they ran out of essential equipment like oxygen bags and naloxone, and some staff were not trained in basic life-saving procedures like CPR. Victims and Cause of Death travis scott astroworld disaster