We are humbled and proud to bring you something we’ve been working on for months. Our KPRC2 Investigates team just launched a one hour documentary called Astroworld: Countdown to Tragedy.
Our team conducted close to 40 interviews and reviewed countless reports in this investigation to bring you the full picture of the 2021 Astroworld Festival tragedy. Hear from people who were there as we look into what happened, the confusion over who is responsible and what is being done to prevent future tragedies.
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Other team highlights from the week include:
- The Evidence Room, episode 4 - the case where a serial killer called into the KPRC2 newsroom
- Huge phone issues after family loses loved one
- The new item thieves are ripping from vehicles
- Operation Lone Star: rural areas dealing with border arrest cases
KPRC 2 Investigates presents ‘ASTROWORLD: COUNTDOWN TO TRAGEDY’
The two-day open-air festival brought men and women, children and young adults from across the country to Houston. The excitement for Travis Scott at the Astroworld Festival on Nov. 5, 2021 quickly turned to panic, confusion and devastation.
In the year since the tragedy, there are no clear answers as to who is accountable for what happened at the 2021 Astroworld Festival or what specifically is being done to prevent a similar tragedy in Houston in the future.
And if you missed the KPRC2+a livestream of Astroworld: Countdown to Tragedy, you can watch it again Saturday at 5 p.m.
Investigator Mario Diaz talked with a former City of Houston Police Commander said he and other first responders were bracing for chaos at the Astroworld festival tragedy.
“The one defining memory of that is the ambulances coming down McNee. Just a line of ambulances, watching them go by and knowing right there that my career was over,” Mark Lentini, the former HPD Commander, told KPRC2 Investigates.
In the full ‘ASTROWORLD: Countdown To Tragedy’ documentary you’ll hear from one young man who did everything he could to try and get the concert stopped. Other concert goers explain how the momentum was building throughout the day and the signs that concerned them.
KPRC2 Investigates Docuseries: The Evidence Room
On a summer day in 1995, an unknown man called the KPRC 2 newsroom to report there was a serial killer on the loose. In this episode of ‘The Evidence Room,’ you’ll hear from our former employee about how he told her where to find one of the victims and law enforcement would soon discover the victim was 16-year-old Dana Sanchez.
It would be years before anyone knew that the man who made that call was Anthony Allen Shore.
AT&T phone service frustration after loved one dies
You might remember the days when everyone had a landline telephone or maybe you still have one. Some are used to connecting to other services, but other people do use the landline to make calls.
A Houston family said they don’t want the phone mess they are dealing with to happen to others, so they called KPRC 2 Investigates for help.
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We know catalytic converters are something often stolen from vehicles but now there’s something else you should watch out for. Catalytic converters and truck tailgates have been hot items for thieves for years. Once the tailgate is open, thieves have easy access to something else they are taking and it’s costing drivers a lot of money to get it fixed.
Other team highlights:
- Operation Lone Star: Border-related arrests creating large caseloads in rural county courts
- Ask Amy: Two things you can do to deter catalytic converter theft
- Ghost tax preparer accused of stealing $4.4 million
- Election Season: Combatting disinformation