Astroworld promo video showed footage of frenzied 2019 Travis Scott concert ...

Astroworld published a promotional video ahead of this year's festival that features a compilation of clips depicting the hysteria and rowdy crowds from the concert's last run in 2019, when three fans were hospitalized after the crowds knocked over a security barricade.   

Investigators are now examining the design of the security barriers, the use of crowd control and other safety measures from this year's festival to determine what led to the violent stampede that killed eight people and injured hundreds more. 

The victims, which included a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were crushed to death at this year's Astroworld Festival on Friday night. Headliner Travis Scott, 30, continued to perform for up to 30 minutes as people were killed and crowds chanted 'stop the show.' 

Astroworld's promo, published in May, plays on the media attention the festival's last run received for being branded unruly and out of control after fans knocked down a security barrier while rushing the stage, which prompted organizers to bolster security this year.

'Astroworld fest is in full swing, but now with extra security,' says what appears to be a male news anchor at the start of the video, before a female anchor says, 'We want to show you what it looked like when the festival opened its doors today.'

The two voices are heard over footage of fans racing through the festival grounds, packed in dancing crowds and pressed up against a barricade at the front of a stage.

Scott posted the same clips from the video on Twitter in 2019, with the caption, 'THANKS TO EVERYBODY THAT PULLED UP TO RAGE !!!!'

The new, repackaged video used to promote this year's event is no longer available on the festival's official YouTube page and other pages, though it is still up on their Instagram.

Investigators are planning to use videos, witness interviews and a review of concert procedures to ascertain what led to the deadly disaster.  

Billy Nasser, 24, who had traveled from Indianapolis to attend the concert, told Fox News that everything got 'really crazy' roughly 15 minutes into Scott's set, when people began bowling each other over.

Nasser said he was picking people up and trying to pull them out of the crowd. He recalled the horrifying moment he found one person on the ground and said, 'I picked him up. People were stepping on him. People were like stomping, and I picked his head up and I looked at his eyes, and his eyes were just white, rolled back to the back of his head.'

Julio Patino, of Naperville, Illinois, was in London on business when he got a call in the middle of the night to let him know that his 21-year-old son Franco was dead. He told Fox News that he still has a lot of questions about what happened.

He said, 'These concerts should be controlled. If they don't know how to do that, they should have canceled the concert right then, when they noticed there was an overcrowd. They should not wait until they see people laying down on the floor, lifeless.'

In addition to examining the security barriers and measures, investigators are also trying to determine if there was another factor or event that incited the chaos aside from Scott taking the stage.

Steven Adelman is the vice president of the industry group Event Safety Alliance, which was formed after the collapse of a stage at the Indiana State Fair in 2011 killed seven people. He helped write industry guidelines widely used today and said in an interview with Fox News, 'Security obviously was unable to stop people. Optically, that's really bad-looking. But as for what it tells us, it's too early to say.'

Officials are also looking at the event's security plan and various permits issued to organizers to assess whether they were adequately followed, the news outlet reported.

Izabella Ramirez of Texas City was celebrating her 21st birthday and recalled being stuck in place when Scott took the stage. 'Everybody was squishing in, and people were trying to move themselves to the front. You couldn't even lift up your arms,' Ramirez told Fox News.

When the stampede ensued, Ramirez said a security guard pulled her over the barricade and her date, Jason Rodriguez, lifted her up.

'Everyone was yelling for different things. They were either yelling for Travis or they were yelling for help,' Rodriguez said.

One video posted online shows security carrying a body out of the crowd as Scott performs from an elevated platform, before stopping the show briefly to say, 'Security, somebody help real quick.'

Many local officials were aware of the dangers the festival posed and Houston Police Chief Troy Finner recently revealed that he visited Travis Scott his trailer to discuss crowd control just hours before he took to the stage. 

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.

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.

Scott has since pledged to refund all 50,000 attendees who bought tickets to Astroworld. He was set to perform at another festival this Saturday, but sources told Variety that he will no longer appear because he is ‘too distraught to play.’

The rapper had a headline appearance scheduled for the Day N Vegas Festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, a general-admission event featuring several artists where fans rush to the front of the stage on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Scott was scheduled for the main stage, called the Frank Stage, from 10.45 p.m. to 11.45 p.m., following performances from Lil Baby and Doja Cat.

Scott, 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.'

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. The festival garnered months of anticipation by devotes fans eager to see live performances again following the coronavirus pandemic pause.

'We literally flew down just for Astroworld. I’ve had the tickets for months,' Jesse Dahl, who came from Denver with his 9-year-old son for the show, told the NYT.

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

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