Concertgoers have been leaving the present, that includes rappers GloRilla and Finesse2tymes, on the Major Road Armory in Rochester at simply after 11 p.m. when the gang started to surge, metropolis Police Chief David Smith informed a information convention on Monday.

“There are some studies that photographs have been heard, inflicting the gang to panic,” he stated, nonetheless including that police had discovered no proof to assist that idea.

Police situated three badly injured females contained in the constructing, certainly one of whom later died in hospital. The opposite two have been in crucial situation, and 7 different folks have been hospitalized with non-life threatening accidents, Smith stated.

Preliminary studies from the scene indicated the accidents have been attributable to folks being trampled.

“We don’t have any proof of gunshots being fired or anybody being shot or stabbed on the scene,” Smith added. “We’re listening to many studies of potential causes together with potential crowd measurement.”

The Major Road Armory is a well-liked native leisure venue that holds 5,000 folks.

“We’re going to maintain folks accountable for what occurred final evening, interval,” Rochester Mayor Malik Evans stated.

“I am simply now listening to about what occurred … praying everyone is okay,” GlorRilla wrote in a Twitter submit late on Sunday.

Sixteen months in the past, 10 folks died in a stampede at a live performance by rapper Travis Scott at Houston’s Astroworld Pageant.