Brothers assaulted at House of Blues concert

HOUSTON – It was supposed to be a night of fun, seeing one of their favorite rappers perform live, but Wednesday evening at the House of Blues in downtown Houston turned into a night two brothers and their cousin will never forget for the wrong reasons.

"They kicked me in the face and they thought that that would knock me out or something so they could take my phone," said one of the young men. "I just kept on holding on to my phone."

"They" are a group of men in white and blue T-shirts who were going through the crowd at the XXX Tentacion concert, allegedly taking cellphones and attacking people. A video was taken after one of the men swiped a phone from one of the brothers in the group we spoke to, and their cousin went after him.

"I had grabbed his shoulder and turned him around," said the cousin. "And as he did that, he swung, but I ducked under. And then once I did that, I don't remember anything else. Just more fists."

The young men, who didn't want to be identified out of fear of retaliation have the bumps, bruises and blood to testify to the melee. They say the atmosphere at the concert turned violent several times.

There is another video from Wednesday night posted to the website World Star Hip Hop that shows another performer leaping from the stage to body surf and then promptly getting attacked by the people who catch him. The perpetrators appear to be the same men in the white and blue T-shirts.

"I hope they get caught," says one of brothers who spoke to Channel 2.  "I don't even care about the phone.  They hurt my family members, so, that was disappointing, to be honest."

HPD is investigating the case as an assault.