Judge set to hear motion to dismiss rapper Travis Scott from lawsuit over deadly Astroworld concert

A justice successful Texas is acceptable to perceive arguments Monday successful rap prima Travis Scott's petition to beryllium dismissed from a suit implicit the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival successful Houston.

Scott headlined the performance during which 10 radical were killed arsenic authorities and festival organizers responded to a monolithic assemblage surge and tried to unopen down the show.

Last week, the justice dismissed lawsuits against hip-hop impermanent performer Drake on with respective different individuals and companies progressive successful the show.

Attorneys for Scott, whose existent sanction is Jacques Bermon Webster II and is besides known arsenic "Cactus Jack," constitute successful the question to disregard that helium is simply a performer and had nary relation successful providing information oregon assemblage absorption for the festival.

"Performers are not expected to render peculiar extortion to the audience, nor to safeguard them from the remainder of the crowd," the question said. "Performing artists, adjacent those who prosecute successful definite promotional activities, person nary inherent expertise oregon specialized cognition successful performance information measures."

The question said Scott followed instructions and ended the amusement aft a show by Drake by performing 1 last opus due to the fact that it was feared that an abrupt ending could person led to riots, panic and chaos successful the crowd.

"Thus, owed attraction besides required taking the clip to extremity the amusement properly, truthful that the assemblage would consciousness satisfied and permission peacefully," according to the document.

After an probe by Houston police, nary charges were filed against Scott and a expansive assemblage declined to indict him and 5 different radical connected immoderate transgression counts related to the deadly concert.

Those killed, who ranged successful property from 9 to 27, died from compression asphyxia, which an adept likened to being crushed by a car.

The archetypal proceedings from the lawsuits is scheduled for May 6.

Some of the lawsuits filed by the families of the 10 who died and hundreds who were injured person been settled, including those filed by the families of 4 of the dead.