Travis Scott was cleared of any criminal charges Thursday for the fatal Astroworld festival that took the lives of 10 attendees and injured hundreds more.
The 32-year-old “Goosebumps” rapper’s attorney Kent Schaffer told The Post in a statement: “Today’s decision by the Harris County District Attorney confirms what we have known all along -— that Travis Scott is not responsible for the AstroWorld tragedy.”
Schaffer said the decision is “consistent” with media and government reports “that have squarely placed the onus for event safety crises on organizers, operators and contractors — not performers.”
He continued, “While waiting patiently for the district attorney’s decision to not file charges, Travis Scott has been inaccurately and wrongly singled out, despite stopping the show three separate times and being unaware of the events as they were unfolding.”
A Texas grand jury had been in session “most of the day” to discuss possible charges against Scott.
Eight Astroworld attendees died at the festival and two more later died in the hospital.
The Houston Police Department held a press conference Thursday to further explain how they came to this conclusion.
“The grand jury found that no crime did occur and that no single person was criminally responsible,” said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.
HPD Detective Mike Barrow then took the podium and provided images of the festival grounds that investigators broke down into quadrants. He said they were able to determine that all 10 deaths happened in a general admission area, which included “a viewing field and overflow field for all the other concert attendees who were not able to get to the front.
“One of the key contributing factors to the deaths was the overpopulation and resulting compaction in quadrant three,” he said.
“Just to be clear, this was not a crowd stampede. This was not a stage rush. This was not a crowd surge,” Barrow stated. “This was a slow compaction or a constriction into this quadrant resulting in collapses within the crowd that covered a very small area in this overall large footprint.”
Schaffer reportedly told KHOU 11 earlier in the day that no one was ever able to articulate what the charges would be.
He claimed Scott never formally testified but did have an interview with police.
Scott previously claimed he had no idea that multiple fans were being trampled on and passing out in the crowd while he performed at the November 2021 event.
Fan-captured footage shows Scott noticing an ambulance in the crowd, pointing at it and asking, “What the f – – k is that?”
Travis Scott performs at Astroworld Festival at NRG park on Nov. 5, 2021 in Houston. AP
Scott pictured at the screening of “The Idol” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 22. REUTERS“If everybody good, put a middle finger up to the sky,” he instructed the crowd after two crew members came onstage to talk to Scott.
The rapper then resumed the show.
Last July, Scott stopped his Coney Island concert and ordered fans who had scaled a lighting truss to get down.
Astroworld resulted in over 300 civil lawsuits against Scott and event organizers, though no one has been criminally charged.
