The family of Astroworld's newest victim settles its latest wrongful-death lawsuit

The family of Ezra Blount, the nine-year-old killed in the crowd crash at Travis Scott's Astroworld festival, has settled the last pending wrongful-death lawsuit connected to the 2021 tragedy.

As the Houston Chronicle According to reports, Scott West, an attorney for the Blount family, said the settlement was reached earlier this week (terms were not disclosed). The case will go to trial in September.

“The family is pleased to settle their claim against all defendants following the death of their son, Ezra,” West said. “They look forward to continuing the healing process and never forgetting.

Representatives for Live Nation and Scott – who was among those charged – did not immediately return calls Rolling rockrequests for comment.

Blount was the youngest person to die during the Astroworld tragedy. His father, Treston, had taken him to see the show and Ezra had sat on his shoulders when the crowd began to erupt as Scott began his set. Treston was caught in the crash and Ezra fell off his shoulders, lost in the chaos. His family later found him at a nearby hospital, listed as John Doe. After several days in the hospital, during which he was placed in a medically induced coma, Ezra died from his injuries.

“We have a lot of anger right now because someone is responsible for our grandson's condition,” said Blount's grandfather, Bernon. Rolling rock in 2021 while Ezra was still in the hospital. “For him to have the injuries that he has, I can't help but imagine in my mind what he had to go through to get those injuries. Someone has to be held responsible. He went there with his father to have a good time, not to be trampled in half… I don't even want to say the word.'

The settlement of the Blount family's lawsuit comes several weeks after a Live Nation attorney, Neal Manne, told the court that nine of the 10 wrongful-death lawsuits had been settled (before that, at least four cases were known to have been settled). Manne's confirmation came the same week that the first of those lawsuits — brought by Madison Dubiski's family — went to trial.

There are still hundreds of pending injury lawsuits related to the Astroworld tragedy. It's possible that one of them will slip into the September dates originally scheduled for the Blount family's suit.