Good friend of Astroworld Sufferer Recollects Moments Main As much as Her Dying

A buddy of Brianna Rodriguez, who’s considered one of 10 victims of the deadly crowd surge that happened at Astroworld in 2021, is recounting his expertise on the music pageant.

Within the first episode of Netflix’s documentary anthology Trainwreck, which debuted on June 10, a number of individuals who had been current on the pageant look at the tragedy that happened — and its aftermath.

Recalling his private expertise, Ayden, who attended the pageant with a bunch of associates, together with Rodriguez, remembered feeling “a sure worry” throughout Travis Scott‘s headlining efficiency.

“A type of waves simply hit each me and Bri. All of us fell to our backs. I might hear her in ache. You understand, asking ‘assist me get out’ and stuff like that,” he stated. “I used to be the second layer. There was individuals below me after which me falling on my again after which individuals stacking on prime of me.”

He continued, “I felt just like the extra I saved preventing it, the extra I used to be losing vitality. Like for those who’re holding your breath underwater. I might really feel the oxygen simply leaving my physique.”

Ayden could not recall how lengthy he was down for — “nevertheless it felt like eternally.” Then, individuals started shifting off of him, and somebody helped him up.

“I noticed somebody’s face. They checked out me. He pulled me out,” he stated. “I simply keep in mind feeling so many alternative issues. The place’s Mikaela? Did Bri get out?”

In that second, he panicked, and tried stopping the present by getting a cameraman’s consideration however he felt like “no one was on my aspect.”

“I felt like I am helpless. I knew Bri was in that space nonetheless struggling. I simply needed to search out some assist,” he stated.

After he discovered his associates, they had been all “frantically searching for Bri” and discovered she was taken to the hospital. By the point they arrived, they had been informed “we will not do something” to avoid wasting her.

“Everybody simply dropped to the ground… I felt defeated,” he stated.

Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy options unique interviews with survivors, paramedics and pageant workers.

On Nov. 6, 2021, Rodriguez’s household confirmed to PEOPLE that she was one of the victims who died on the mass casualty occasion throughout Scott’s efficiency at Houston’s NRG Park. She was 16.

Per her household’s Fb submit, Rodriguez was a junior in highschool.

“Gone from our websites [sic], however by no means from our hearts,” wrote her household. “It’s with profound disappointment we lay to relaxation our beloved Brianna Rodriguez. She was a wonderful vibrant 16-year-old highschool junior at Heights HS in Houston TX. Dancing was her ardour and now she’s dancing her solution to heaven’s pearly gates.”

In 2023, a grand jury declined to indict Scott — who previously claimed he didn’t hear screams for assist when the gang surge started — for his involvement within the pageant.

The victims of the tragedy had been Axel Acosta, Danish Baig, 27, Rodolfo “Rudy” Peña, 23, Madison Dubiski, 23, Franco Patiño, 21, Jacob Jurinek, 20, John Hilgert, 14, Bharti Shahan, 22, and Ezra Blount, 9.

Practically 5,000 people were injured.