The family of Ezra Blount declined an offer from Travis Scott to cover his funeral costs. In a statement to Travis’ lawyer, Blount family lawyer Bob Hilliard said, “Your client’s offer is declined. I have no doubt Mr. Scott feels remorse. His journey ahead will be painful. He must face and hopefully see that he bears some of the responsibility for this tragedy.”
Hilliard went on to describe Ezra’s death. “To lose a child in the manner Treston lost Ezra compounds the pain,” he wrote. “As a parent, Treston cannot help but agonize over the terrible idea that Ezra’s last minutes were filled with terror, suffering, suffocation and worst of all surrounded by strangers, his dad unconscious underneath the uncontrolled crowd.”
This comes weeks after the Astroworld Tragedy, where 10 people lost their lives. Witnesses say that the massive crowds in confined space caused the chaos, with constant pushing and eventual suffocation for some. Unconscious bodies were being crowd surfed to the exit, and Scott is currently being slammed with a slew of lawsuits. He is being widely blamed for the handling of the event.
Blount’s case was a nightmare. “Everyone was pushing. It was so tight with no exits. His dad couldn’t breathe at all and passed out. We don’t really know what happened to Ezra after that,” grandmother Tericia Blount said. The family later found Ezra at a nearby hospital listed as a John Doe. He lingered in a medically induced coma for days and died of irreversible organ failure on Nov. 14.
Alex Hilliard, another lawyer representing the Blount family, said Monday that Treston and Ezra’s mom, Tamara Byrd, are “attempting to band together and move forward, but it’s a day-by-day, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute survival mode they’re in.”
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