22-year-old Bharti Shahani has died, making her the 9th casualty from Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival.
Shahani, a senior at Texas A&M University passed away on Thursday, 11th of November after sustaining severe injuries from the event on Friday night in Houston. This information is according to a family attorney.
Shahani was initially declared brain dead and was on a ventilator. She had gone to Astroworld with her sister and cousin, but the two got separated during the crowd rush. Shahani had reportedly suffered several heart attacks after the crowd-crush and was rushed to a local hospital.
A 9-year-old boy who was also injured at the sold-out festival of 50,000 people remained in a medically induced coma, according to family.
For the first time in her life, she just wanted to have fun, and that was taken from her, said Namrata Shahani, her sister, who attended the concert with Bharti and their cousin.
