What happened at the Astroworld Festival: Witnesses describe scenes of chaos and tragedy

TK Tellez knows that festivals can get crazy. The moment kept replaying in my mind over and over again.” ‘Kids were dropping left and right’ Billy Nasser described the crowd surge that killed eight people Friday night as a “death trap.” Nasser said he was one of the concertgoers who tried to help people who were getting stomped on as they were “fighting for their lives.” “I picked some kid up and his eyes rolled to the back of his head, so I checked his pulse. Nasser, who works as a DJ, said he just wanted the music to stop as people continued to party without “paying attention to the bodies dropping behind them.” Despite yelling at the camera and light technicians and asking them to alert Scott to stop the festival, Nasser said there wasn’t enough staff on hand to handle the situation. Video Ad Feedback Travis Scott concert attendee describes crowd's behavior 01:27 - Source: CNN “It happens, people rush the stage, no big deal,” Eskins said. KTRK By the time Scott took the stage later that night, Guerra was toward the back of the audience and saw small emergency vehicles cutting through the crowds but “for a festival, it didn’t seem out of the ordinary.” “You see things like that a lot, people being carried out because of exhaustion or dehydration or things like that,” Guerra told CNN by phone Saturday morning.