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A concertgoer who attendedTravis Scott’s May 2019 performance at a Miami music festival has sued the rapper, alleging that his incitement of the crowd led to a stampede that left her with serious injuries.
“The incident involving Travis Scott’s performance at the 2019 Rolling Loud Festival was disturbingly similar to the tragedy which occurred at Astroworld in November of 2021,” Love’s attorney tells PEOPLE in a statement. “We hope that this lawsuit and others like it deter future incidents such as what happened at Rolling Loud and Astroworld.”
Scott, 30, was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston in November when a crowd surge erupted,killing 10 concertgoers, including a 9-year-old boy.
Love’s complaint details an incident that occurred the day before Rolling Loud started, in which “multiple stampedes” and “a panic” broke out following a false report of an active shooter.
The complaint alleges that Scott should have been aware of the stampedes during his performance, and he had a duty to avoid acting in a way that would incite further violence or panic among the crowd.
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A spokesperson for Scott tells PEOPLE that the complaint is “another blatant, cynical attempt to attack Travis, in this instance for a 3-year-old incident that is deliberately misrepresented.”
“As even the complaint makes clear, this incident was related to a false report of a shooting mid-show, completely unrelated to Travis’s performance. The video shows police were informing Travis that the show was stopped for that reason - because of the false report - and he fully cooperated,” the statement said.
“This cheap opportunism is based on a blatant lie that’s easy to detect. And it is particularly telling that this plaintiff’s lawyer didn’t even assert a claim against Travis when he originally filed the complaint on behalf of his client more than two years ago or in four prior VERSIONS of that complaint,” the statement continued.
According to Love’s lawyer, Scott’s involvement in the complaint comes amid alleged video evidence and testimony recovered after the fact.
The complaint also names SLS Consulting, the engineering company responsible for the festival’s safety plan, Sequel Tour Solutions, which provided security, and Michael Sheehan, SLS' managing member, as defendants. Their attorneys did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
