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Two Houston high school students were among the eight people killed during Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival at NRG Park.
Others confirmed dead include four college students and a man trying to save his fiancée, who was getting stomped on by the surge of the crowd, according to CNN.
John Hilgert, 14, was a freshman at Memorial High School in Houston, and Brianna Rodriguez, 16, a junior at Heights High School in Houston.
“Our community has been struck by tragic events on 11/5,” read a statement on the Memorial High School Twitter account. “Please join us in honoring our friends and classmates John from MHS & Brianna from Heights by wearing our school colors plus adding green and pink tributes during Saturday’s playoff game between the two schools. #MustangLove.”
The two high schoolers were among those killed in the tragedy where thousands of concertgoers rushed the stage as Scott performed, trampling and crushing those who succumbed to the chaos. Hundreds were injured.
Also killed were Axel Acosta, 21, of Tieton, Washington, who was a junior at Western Washington University; Madison Dubiski, 23, of Cypress, Texas; Jacob Jurinek, 20, a junior attending Southern Illinois University; Franco Patino, 21, a senior at the University of Dayton; Rodolfo Pena, 23, who studied at Laredo College and Danish Baig, 27, of Euless, Texas, who died while saving his fiancée.
Baig’s brother Basil, who also attended the concert, wrote on his Facebook page the fiancée survived, but the family remains devastated.
He also said the event "was managed poorly and supervised by such horrible people” and said Travis Scott “provoked” the crowd.
“My brother Danish Baig, a beautiful soul whos(e) smile would light up the room and put everyone before himself. Last night he showed his courageous act to save my sister-in-law/his fiancée from those horrendous things that were being done," he wrote. "I am lost of words and in true trauma from this event. I was there and I wasn't able to save my brother.”