Cops visited Travis Scott in his trailer to discuss crowd control hours before ...

Houston's police chief has revealed he visited Travis Scott in his trailer to discuss crowd control just hours before he took to the stage.

Eight fans, including a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were crushed to death at the Astroworld Festival on Friday night.

Scott, 30, continued to perform for up to 30 minutes as people were killed and crowds chanted 'stop the show.' 

Police chief Troy Finner, who knows Scott and felt that he had been trying to do good for his hometown, visited the musician in his trailer before the show on Friday.

He told the megastar that he was concerned about 'the energy in the crowd,' a source told The New York Times.

City officials knew that fans of the rapper were raucous after the Astroworld Festival resulted in a stampede that sent three people to the hospital two years earlier.

Houston bolstered the police force with more officers in the months leading up to the concert, while Live Nation, the organizers, hired additional private security.

But that didn't prevent dozens of fans rushing through security barriers around the venue on Friday night before the festival started.

The show was called off 30 minutes before schedule, but half an hour after a 'mass casualty event' had already been declared by the fire department.

Fire Chief Samuel Peña said on Sunday that Scott and the organizers could have stepped in and paused the show.

'The one person who can really call for and get a tactical pause when something goes wrong is that performer. They have that bully pulpit and they have a responsibility,' Chief Peña told the NYT.

'If somebody would have said, 'Hey, shut this thing down and turn on the lights until this thing gets corrected' — and that coming from the person with the mic — I think could have been very helpful.'

Scott and Live Nation have declined to comment on the specifics but say they are co-operating with the police investigation.

The rapper, who said he was 'devastated' about the deaths and couldn't 'imagine anything like this happening,' has twice been convicted for encouraging fans to jump security barriers and rush the stage at previous concerts.

Scott and Drake are being sued for 'inciting the crowd' by one concert-goer who says he was left 'severely injured' on Saturday night.

Kristian Paredes, 23, from Austin, Texas, filed the complaint obtained by DailyMail.com Sunday accusing the rappers, Live Nation and Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation of negligence. 

According to the complaint, Drake 'came on stage alongside Travis Scott and helped incite the crowd.'

He accuses Drake of continuing to perform with Scott 'as the crowd became out of control' and ' while the crowd mayhem continued.' 

Paredes is now seeking over $1million for his bodily injuries, some of which he claims is permanent, as well as to cover medical expenses.

He says he felt an 'immediate push' as the countdown to Travis Scott's performance ended and he entered the stage around 9pm. 

'The crowd became chaotic and a stampede began leaving eight dead and dozens including Kristian Paredes severely injured,' the filing states.

'Many begged security guards hired by Live Nation Entertainment for help, but were ignored,' it says.

At around 9.30pm, an ambulance made its way into the crowd, taking 10 minutes to reach the patient. 

Video footage, which has since been deleted, shows two men who appear to be part of Scott's entourage approach him on stage. 

'Y'all know what you came to do,' Scott said, turning to the crowd, before the music started up again.

He then asked the tens of thousands in front of him to make 'the ground shake.'  

Scenes from the tragic night have unfolded on social media, showing concert goers unconscious while the rapper continued his performance. 

Video circulating on Twitter shows fans begging the rapper to stop performing and chanting 'stop the show' as concertgoers were being knocked down and crushed by other attendees.

'Fans were recording the concert and people doing CPR. Fans were yelling at the stage crew around us, saying stop the concert, people are dying. No one listened,' ICU nurse and concert attendee Madeline Eskins told Rolling Stone.

'It was definitely overcrowded. It was insane, honestly. I knew it was just way too crowded – it just got worse and worse as I got closer to Travis Scott performing it got more crowded, more crowded, more crowded.'

She also shared that although they are not to blame for the tragedy, the event's medical staff were apparently unprepared and inexperienced.

'Some of these medical staff had little to no experience with CPR - didn't know how to check a pulse, carotid or femoral,' Eskins shared on Instagram.

'Compressions were being done without a pulse check so ppl who had a pulse were getting CPR, but meanwhile there was not enough people to rotate out doing compressions on individuals that were actually pulseless. The medical staff didn't have the tools to do their jobs and despite the crowd around us trying to get someone to stop the concert they just kept going, even though Travis acknowledged that someone in the crowed needed an ambulance.'

Afterwards, the rapper was seen sobbing. A source close to him told Page Six that he had 'no idea what was going on, he was on stage performing'.

'He's beside himself, I've never heard him like that. He was in tears,' the source added.

Friday's deaths raised eyebrows over footage showing multiple incidents of crowds stampeding towards Scott at prior performances at Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2015 and at an outdoor venue in Arkansas in 2017. Both incidents resulted in misdemeanor convictions for Scott.

A fan who was paralyzed after falling from a balcony during a Scott concert in 2017 has blasted the singer for putting fans' safety at risk.

A lawyer for Kyle Green, a 27-year-old who was injured at Scott's April 2017 concert at Terminal 5 in New York City, says that Green was 'devastated and heartbroken' for the families of the eight people who died at Scott's Friday night concert.

Green says he was forced over the edge of a balcony at the venue, which he called 'severely crowded.' He broke several bones and vertebrae and can only walk with a 'significant, significant disability.'

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Green's attorney Howard Hershenhorn said that Scott's security picked Green up 'like a sack of potatoes' instead of 'putting him in a neck brace and on the backboard.'

'He’s even more incensed by the fact that it could have been avoided had Travis learned his lesson in the past and changed his attitude about inciting people to behave in such a reckless manner,' Hershenhorn told Rolling Stone.

At the 2017 show, Scott had encouraged another fan to jump off the balcony.

'I see you, but are you gonna do it?' Scott asked. 'They gonna catch you. Don't be scared. Don’t be scared!'

In video of the incident, one fan can be heard saying, 'I don't wanna die in here.'

Green sued Scott, his manager, concert promoter Bowery Presents and a security company six months after the incident while he was still confined to a wheelchair. The case is pending.

In August 2015, the 29-year-old, who is dating Kylie Jenner, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of reckless conduct after his fans jumped a security barricade at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.

The Office of Emergency Management said at the time: 'The performer played one song and then began telling fans to come over the barricades. Due to the security's quick response, the situation was remedied immediately and no fans were injured.

The performer fled the scene but was arrested shortly after, according to station WLS.

'All my real ragers jump the barricade right now. Let's go. Come over,' he said at the 2015 show as his young fans obliged. 'I want chaos.' Hundreds were seen storming towards the stage, although there were no reports of anyone being injured.

In February 2018, he pleaded guilty and paid a $7,000 fine to another misdemeanor charge - this one for disorderly conduct - after he encouraged his fans to rush the stage and bypass security at a May 2017 concert at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion in the city of Rogers. 

Weeks before that, a fan at a Scott concert in Manhattan says he was carried over the side of a balcony after the rapper asked fans to rush forward, and was subsequently paralyzed as a result. 

Approximately 50,000 people attended the sold-out Astroworld event at Houston's NRG Park. Witnesses said the chaos broke out after Scott took the stage to perform.

'Everything was normal up until when Travis posted the time he was going to get onstage,' attendee Donovon Davis, 22, of Houston, said. 'That's when it just got wild.'

'The crowd was moving so violently that people fell on top of us, and when they fell, people fell on top of them. There was layers and layers and layers of people falling.'

Davis continued: 'I turned to pick him up, and I could hear him screaming for help. The music hadn't started yet. And then the crowd just moved me, and I saw a wave of people just walk over him.'

Other videos from the night showed distraught fans begging concert staff to halt the performance and help people escape the surge.

'People are f***ing dying, I want to save somebody's life,' a man said as he climbed on a platform where a cameraman was filming the performance.

'That's somebody's kid! I want to save them!' he screamed - but to no avail.'

Another clip showed the same man climbing up towards the cameraman joined by a woman pleading with the staff member to stop the concert.

Although inaudible, the cameraman was evidently trying to shoo the revelers off the platform and back into the crowd.

In yet another graphic video an unconscious young man was surrounded by Houston police officers who guided him onto the ground. They rolled the man onto his side while shining lights into his eyes.

Police investigating the deadly crush say a crazed man injected at least one person with opioids during the chaos.

Chief Finner made the shocking claim at a press conference Saturday after hours of rumors about the Astroworld Fest tragedy, and Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner revealed the victims were aged between 14 and 27.

'One of the narratives was that some individual was injecting other people with drugs. We do have a report of a security officer, according to the medical staff that was out and treated him last night,' Finner said at Saturday's conference.

'He was reaching over to restrain or grab a citizen and he felt a prick in his neck.

'He went unconscious, they administered Narcan. He was revived, and medical staff did notice a prick similar to a prick you would get if somebody was trying to inject,' he added.

It is unclear what drug was injected into the security guard, although Narcan is used to revive people who've overdosed on opioids, including fentanyl.

The surge happened at 9.15pm and fire Chief Pena said in a news conference on Saturday afternoon that the 'mass casualty incident' was declared at 9.15pm. Nearly an hour later, at 10.10pm, the concert producer Live Nation halted the show.

Mayor Turner then confirmed that of the eight who were killed two were under 18, two were 21, two were 23, one was 27 and one victim's age remains unknown.

He also said that 25 people in total were transported to the hospital

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