Rapper Travis Scott will not face criminal charges over Texas crowd surge, lawyer says

Scott is due to play the Longitude Festival in Dublin's Marlay Park this Sunday

Travis Scott. File Picture: Amy Harris/Invision/AP

A Texas grand jury has declined to indict rapper Travis Scott in a criminal investigation into a massive crowd surge that killed 10 people at the 2021 Astroworld music festival in Houston, his attorney said Thursday.

Lawyer Kent Schaffer confirmed that the grand jury had met and decided not to indict his client on any criminal charges stemming from the concert. Schaffer said he was not sure what charges the grand jury had considered.