We represent more than 200
victims who were injured.
Mentally physically and psychologically.
At the Astro World Festival.
Obviously. Some of these?
Victims have been catastrophic.
Lee injured,
who we represent and fatally injured
and are fighting for their lives.
At the outset, we continue to ask for
prayers for a 9 year old Azura Blunt.
We are praying for a miracle with his
parents and his entire family at this time.
This morning we are announcing the filing of.
Over 90 more lawsuits in this matter.
Now that we have collected the information
and the details and the evidence that
they were present at the festival,
that they sustained injuries at
the festival and that we will
make sure that they get justice,
because this should have never ever happened.
You're going to hear from.
Several people this morning that is
just symbolic of the number of people
who we represent that were physically
able to come and be here with us.
Today.
Some of them are not physically
able to calm some of them.
For psychological reasons.
Are still haunted by what happened
that night.
As I told you attorney Hilliard,
Hilliard Martinez and Gonzales
based here in Texas Attorney Darren
Miller based here in Houston,
TX, attorney Ray Shackelford,
based here in Houston,
TX married to Lynn and Charlie
Jones from my office.
Here are present but most importantly
the people present with me or Miss
Gertrude Daughtry who is seated here because.
She has severe injuries to her shoulders,
her legs,
her ankle most prominent,
and the fact that she was on the
ground for 15 minutes.
Struggling to breathe,
you're going to hear from Rina.
Heater who is experiencing severe
post traumatic stress disorder after
witnessing people right near her,
carried out on stretchers as she
also was caught up in the melee.
You're going to hear from Dijon Isaac.
Who was trampled and stomped and had tried
to help people who he saw on the ground.
You're gonna hear from Bryce,
none who may be a little
delayed trying to find parking,
but he has a disc located knee in
his own need crutches to walk.
Miss Unika Smith is going to talk
to you about how she was crushed,
how, after she fainted,
and how she didn't know if she was
gonna make it or not and how she
continues to have the recurring
nightmare of what happened.
And let me before attorney Alex
Hilliard comes and talked to you
about some of the details and
the lawsuit that was drafted.
This is not just about.
Making sure we get justice for these
people who have been severely injured.
It is also about making sure that Live
Nation and all of the organizers,
promoters,
and anybody else who had anything
to do with the failure here that
caused people to lose their children.
I mean.
Families lost their high school children,
their college children.
People were injured greatly.
And nobody should ever die
from going to a concert.
So this lawsuit is not just
about getting justice for them,
but it's about making sure that their
promoters and the organizers know that.
You cannot allow this to ever happen
in the future, even if you have
to immediately stop the concert,
and we understand attorney here
that there were several people.
Who could have stopped this concert
when we saw these tragic circumstances
start to occur around the 905 time
and we have a timeline that breaks
it down and each and every one of
them could have stopped the music
turned down the white hot spotlight.
Bo it so everybody could see what's going on.
Everybody could see who was on the ground.
Everybody could see where everybody was at
and everybody could just take a breath.
But they didn't do that.
And that's what we are saying to Live
Nation and everybody involved in the future.
Safety must be paramount.
As.
Kristin Blunt says so. Passionately.
I thought it would be safe.
That's where all of them thought
they thought it would be safe.
They never knew something that was
supposed to be a great memory for them.
They went with family and friends.
They never fathom that it would be
the worst nightmare of their life
where they witnessed people be killed.
Where they witnessed people crying out in
agony as they were trumpet on and they
were stepped down and they were crushed.
They never thought they would
be at the concert hearing.
People say something that we hear
far too much now in the past year,
people screaming. I can't breathe.
I mean, the videos are everywhere.
And when you think about what
we're asking people to do,
if you were at the concert.
And you have video on your cell phone.
Please visit us at Astro World claims
help.com they share the videos with us.
If you witness stuff,
please call us if you were injured,
please call us because what we're trying
to do is make sure we gather all the
evidence so this will never happen again.
Also. We sued on behalf of eBay
in part to get justice for him,
but to also ensure that our independent
experts could get on the scene.
Of where the crimes took place and
they could see for themselves.
What they described as a war zone?
I mean you had shoes, you had clothes,
you had blood spots all out there.
At the scene.
And that was important because.
It corroborated what our clients
have told us that they were just
trying to get out of there.
They left their clothes.
They left their shoes.
They left cell phones and when you look
at that scene, you see for yourself.
People were literally fighting for their
life just to try to get out of there.
And so that's important in the testimonial,
evidence is important,
so if you have a story to let us know.
What happened so we can get
to the answers of who failed?
Who failed in their responsibilities?
Because each and everyone of them
will be held accountable and these.
Brave victims.
Are going to tell you what they witnessed.
So other people hopefully will
have the courage.
To come forward and tell their story.
Right now I have the honor of
working with one of the best
lawyers and law firms in America,
based here in Texas.
I hear ya,
Martinez and Gonzalez,
attorney Alex Hilliard will talk
about some of the details of our lawsuit.
Then our introduce you to our clients
and then after that we will have
question and answers so we can try
to answer as many of them as we can.
Attorney Alex Hillier.
The evidence in the investigation,
which has been under way,
including the inspection.
Of the energy stadium.
Has revealed that the criminal behavior
in this case started weeks prior to.
The date of the concert.
There was no plan in
place for this to happen.
They are legally required as the organizers.
The risk directors,
the security personnel to protect over
50,000 people and they didn't have a plan.
At 9:00 AM, when the gates opened.
Everything was out of control.
As soon as the first person gets injured,
if there's no plan.
Chaos ensues.
The chaos grew and grew and grew.
Until multiple people, 10,
confirmed now lost their lives,
thousands of people injured and 10s of
thousands of people who had to witness.
As CPR was given to their friends
to their daughters to their sons.
To their young brothers and sisters as
they finally escaped a suffocating crowd.
Over 45 minutes of torture.
As they tried to escape, feeling trapped,
feeling like they would lose their lives.
I promise you every story.
From each client.
Is more tragic than the one before it.
Because nobody can be trapped like that
without oxygen without any place to move.
Combining that with seeing someone
die right in front of your eyes
and when you finally do escape that
Warzone and you get out of that crowd,
you see multiple bodies on the floor.
The medical staff was.
Egregiously egregiously short staffed,
they did not have enough personnel.
They did not have enough stretchers.
They did not have enough defibulators.
To try to resuscitate all the people.
Whose hearts weren't beating.
We inspected the NRG Stadium
where this concert took place.
Our experts have confirmed from
the evidence that was obtained.
That this concert never should have
been approved in the first place.
We were talking about the
largest organizer and promoter.
Of festivals and concerts in the world.
And when that happens,
a failure of epic proportions.
On this type of scale. It is criminal.
It is nothing but criminal.
They have a higher duty to
protect the public.
They sold 354 hundred dollars,
$450 tickets and decided not to protect
even one of their ticket holders.
Sadly, a lot of our clients didn't
even understand when they bought
their ticket because how could they?
That they were actually buying
their own death sentence.
We are honored to be representing.
Our clients in this case.
And at this time I'd like to
introduce to you a few of them,
so you could hear their stories.
99 victims, I apologize. If they're right.