ASTROWORLD TRAGEDY: Homicide, narcotics detectives investigating 8 festival deaths, police say.

At least eight people were killed and hundreds were treated for injuries after a sold-out crowd of nearly 50,000 people surged during rapper Travis Scott’s performance at a music festival Friday night in Houston, authorities said.

Plus note this detail:

Houston Police Chief Troy Finner confirmed at least one case where a security officer “felt a prick” from a needle-like object in his neck.

“We do have a report of a security officer, according to the medical staff that was out treating him last night, that he was reaching over to restrain or grab a citizen and he felt a prick in his neck,” Finner told reporters during an afternoon news conference. “When he was examined, he went unconscious.

“They administered Narcan and he was revived and the medical staff did notice a prick that was similar to a prick that you would get if somebody tried to inject.”

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner did not want to speculate about how many of the deaths might have been caused by drugs.

“I don’t even want to go to drug overdoses,” Turner said. “We are looking at all potential causes of this incident or what caused the cardiac arrest. We’re not taking anything off the table.” He said the ages of the dead, whose names have not yet been released, were between 16 and 23.

And now comes the lawsuits: Travis Scott is sued over ‘predictable and preventable tragedy’ at Astroworld.

UPDATE (11/11/21): Astroworld security guard wasn’t injected with drugs, police chief says: “On Wednesday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner offered clarity on a security guard who was rumored to have been injected with drugs during Friday’s melee. Finner said the guard was not injected with anything, but was struck in the head and knocked unconscious. Police are still investigating whether there were laced drugs at the concert, he added.”