‘I felt a little off’ – CBS Denver

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DENVER (CBS4) – Jesse Dahl and his 9-year-old son Christiano are grateful to be back in Denver safe and sound. They flew to Houston last weekend to enjoy one of his son’s favorite performers, Travis Scott, at Astroworld, having no idea it would end in tragedy.

“What an adventure at the airport! My son is so excited, his first plane flight! Astroworld here we are! Dahl wrote in a Facebook post.

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Videos show the couple happily enjoying a roller coaster ride as they arrive at Astroworld, just hours before the concert begins. Dahl said they have been looking forward to their trip for months.

(credit: Jesse Dahl)

“It was billed to all ages, and half was carnival for the kids,” Dahl told CBS4’s Mekialaya White via Zoom.

At around 7 p.m. before the concert started, Dahl said they had moved closer to the stage in anticipation of Scott’s performance.

“My son and I went to the front, we were just there to take pictures. I told her that I didn’t feel comfortable because if it is too crowded there is no way out. To be honest, I felt a bit bad.

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Dahl says he was able to get to an elevated private area. Then, soon after, a crowd took to the stage and things got dangerous.

(credit: Apple Music)

“Four hundred or 500 people rushed in and about 20 mounted policemen entered. People’s arms were pinned, and it wasn’t because they were partying. It was so that they had room for them to breathe. They were just cramped, barricaded, it was like they were trapped and no one could get out. And people just start to jump the railings, they just jump left and right.

He continued to recount the scene: “There was a man lying on the ground, they had his shirt torn and by that time his face was already blue. So I don’t know how long he was unconscious, they had two people doing compressions. We didn’t know it was as bad as it was.

The concert ended abruptly. He says since then he has suffered from severe anxiety and even PTSD, but it’s a healing to talk about it. Dahl says an event that was meant to be fun shouldn’t have ended like this.

“You didn’t have time to digest what was going on. I didn’t think we were in a place where people were losing their lives and desperately wanting to get out of it.

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In the future, Dahl intends to do more research. “I will definitely be more forward thinking and investigate these artists more.”

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