- An 18-year-old who says his lung collapsed after the deadly Astroworld festival in Houston has sued organizers.
- Ten people died after a crowd of more than 50,000 people surged toward the stage in early November.
- Angel Dominguez felt "bubbles in his chest" nearly two weeks after being crushed at the concert, according to the lawsuit.
A high school senior who was hospitalized for a collapsed lung nearly two weeks after he was crushed by the crowd at the deadly Astroworld festival in Houston has filed a lawsuit against Travis Scott and the event's organizers.
Ten people died after the concert on November 5, where the crowd of more than 50,000 people rushed toward the stage, trampling hundreds in a deadly surge. Concertgoers have filed more than 170 lawsuits against Scott and other festival organizers, including ScoreMore and Live Nation, since the event.
Angel Dominguez, 18, said in a lawsuit filed Friday that his lung collapsed nearly two weeks after attending the festival, where he says he was crushed during the crowd surge. Dominguez is seeking more than $1,000,000 in damages from Scott and the festival's other organizers for his injuries and mental anguish.
Representatives for Scott, ScoreMore and Live Nation did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment on Monday.
Dominguez, who is from Denver, Colorado, received a ticket to the festival from his mother as a birthday present, according to the lawsuit. Dominguez arrived at the concert at NRG Park and made his way into the crowd after spending "hundreds of dollars" on concert merchandise, but quickly realized that the crowd was too large for the area set up to contain it.
"The pressure and impact from the condensed crowd began to rapidly increase with no signs of stopping," the lawsuit said. "The pressure and suffocation of body upon body quickly went from innocent comradery to a fight for survival."
Dominguez "feared he was being crushed by the juggernaut of collective bodies," and could not see his feet at one point in the chaos, according to the lawsuit.
"Plaintiff believes he was physically stepping on concertgoers who were either unconscious or unable to get back to their feet," the lawsuit said.
But Dominguez's "nightmare had just begun," and he began feeling chest pain and shortness of breath in his hotel room shortly after he left the concert, according to the lawsuit. Dominguez returned to Colorado on November 7, but continued to have chest pain, shortness of breath, and a lingering cough for days.
On November 16, nearly two weeks after the concert, Dominguez complained of "bubbling in his chest" to the nurse at his high school, the lawsuit said. He then went to the emergency room, where doctors determined that Dominquez's lung had collapsed after "crush injuries and blunt force trauma sustained to his chest."
Doctors inserted a pintail catheter into Dominguez's chest to try and drain the excess air that was causing his lung to compress, according to the lawsuit. Dominguez was then transported to a different hospital, where doctors removed the catheter and placed a "hollowed out tube" into Dominguez's chest.
"Plaintiff was awake for the entire procedure and screamed out so loud in agony that his mother had to be restrained and removed from the suite," the lawsuit reads.
The first attempt to reinflate Dominguez's lung was unsuccessful, according to the lawsuit, and he had to languish for days with a tube in his chest while doctors tried to prevent permanent damage to "his 18-year-old system."
The full extent of Dominguez's injuries will be known to doctors "in the coming months," the lawsuit says, but "plaintiff and his family are hopeful that, through treatment, he can one day fully recover from his injuries."