Scott: Families of 2 friends killed at Travis Scott concert sued – Times of India

Naperville: The family of two close friends from suburban Chicago have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the rapper who was killed at an Astroworld concert in Houston this month. Travis Scott, Live Nation Entertainment Company and others.
lawsuits filed by Naperville The family of Jacob “Jake” Jurinek, 20, and franco patino, 21, are part of a flurry of dozens of lawsuits against Scott and the companies behind the November 5 incident, in which 10 people were killed and hundreds were injured when a crowd pushed past concert-goers, many of them crushed and crushed.
Like many other lawsuits, it places the blame on companies and Scott, an organizer of the concert who was on stage when the fatal scene unfolded, for failing to take even the most basic safety precautions.
“The defendants seriously failed in their duty to protect the health, safety and lives of concert attendees, including failure to provide adequate security personnel to implement crowd control measures, proper barricades and is not limited to failure. Adequate emergency medical assistance,” the suit argues.
Patino and Jurinek were both college students in Patino University of Dayton Southern Illinois University—in Carbondale, Ohio and Jurinek. He was a football teammate at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville.
Like loved ones of other victims, a partner at the Chicago law firm Corboy & Demetrio, which filed the lawsuit this week in the Harris County courts in Houston, said the families are trying to understand something that doesn’t make sense.
“A healthy, strong 20- or 21-year-old kid goes to a concert thinking he’s going to have some fun, and they’re going to celebrate Jake’s 21st birthday, in this case,” Corboy said. , according to the Naperville Sun. “No one expects something as happy and joyous as a concert to go where they die. No one anticipates that when they pay these high prices for these concert tickets they will get something like this.” things to worry about.”

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