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Nine-year-old succumbs, death toll from Travis Scott’s Houston concert stampede rises to 10

Rapper Travis Scott during the Houston concert. (Photo/Courtesy)

An attorney for the family of a 9-year-old boy who was trampled at a Travis Scott concert in Houston and was on life support for a week said that the child had died from his injuries on Sunday.

The death of Ezra Blount brought the total number of those killed during a stampede at last week's Astroworld Festival to ten, ranging in age from 9 to 27.

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