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This is what we know about some of the victims.
Hilgert was a freshman at Memorial Higher University in Houston, Spring Branch Independent University District spokesperson Terry Abbott instructed CNN.
Memorial Significant School Principal Lisa Weir despatched a letter Saturday to dad and mom at the faculty, informing them of the demise.
“We are deeply saddened to inform you that a male ninth grade university student died … in an incident at the Astroworld Competition. Our hearts go out to the student’s family members and to his friends and our personnel at Memorial. This is a horrible reduction, and the whole MHS loved ones is grieving right now,” Weir’s letter reads.
Brianna Rodriguez, 16
Rodriguez was a junior at Heights Large School in Houston, according to a verified GoFundMe account set up by her loved ones.
“Dancing was her passion and now she’s dancing her way to heaven’s pearly gates,” the fundraising write-up claims.
Franco Patino, 21
Patino, a senior at the University of Dayton, was finding out mechanical engineering technologies and human movement biomechanics, in accordance to a assertion from the university.
He was a member of Alpha Psi Lambda, a Hispanic-interest fraternity, the assertion reported, and was originally from Naperville, Illinois.
Danish Baig, 27
Baig, from Euless, Texas, died making an attempt to conserve his fiancée, who was receiving stomped on and hit in the crowd surge at the concert, his brother Basil Baig instructed CNN Sunday.
His spouse and children suggests he was an awesome person who liked with all his heart.
“People would admire him for who he was,” Basil Baig told CNN.
His funeral will be held Sunday in Colleyville, Texas, his brother mentioned.
Basil Baig stated his brother’s fiancée survived but is bruised all about her entire body and is traumatized.
Jacob Jurinek, 20
Illinois higher education scholar Jacob Jurinek was amongst the eight people who died at Houston’s Astroworld Competition on Friday, in accordance to a statement released by his college.
Jurinek was a junior researching journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the university claims.
In the launch, SIU Chancellor Austin Lane stated Jurinek “was a imaginative, smart youthful person, with a promising profession in journalism and promotion.”
Unfamiliar victim, early 20s
Authorities have been trying to find the public’s aid to detect just one of the victims.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences launched a statement Sunday inquiring for aid in pinpointing a male in his early 20s with “limited black or dark brown wavy hair” and “a slight moustache with a visible goatee.”
The person was just over 6 ft tall, weighed about 500 lbs ., and was sporting measurement-11 Nike sneakers, the assertion said.
CNN’s Keith Allen, Rosa Flores, Andy Rose, Caroll Alvarado and Melissa Alonso contributed to this report.
