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One Dead, Nine Injured Following Stampede At GloRilla Concert

<p>A mishap at a GloRilla concert in Rochester&comma; New York&comma; has tragically left one woman dead and nine others injured&comma; and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;euphoria-star-angus-cloud-hit-and-run&sol;&quest;&lowbar;gl&equals;1&ast;kpddzb&ast;&lowbar;up&ast;MQ&period;&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&ast;MTkwNDIxNTgwLjE2NzgxMjQ5OTA&period;&ast;&lowbar;ga&lowbar;V2HX8YP3XL&ast;MTY3ODEyNzAxNi4yLjEuMTY3ODEyNzQ2Ny4wLjAuMA&period;&period;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">authorities<&sol;a> are looking for answers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">GloRilla Fans Rushed To The Exit Due To Perceived Gunfire<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The ordeal unfolded on Sunday evening&comma; as the &&num;8220&semi;F&period;N&period;F&period; &lpar;Let&&num;8217&semi;s Go&rpar;&&num;8221&semi; rapper linked up with Finesse2tymes for a show at the Rochester Main Street Armory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CpamGZ4uvPC" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the performance&comma; <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;apnews&period;com&sol;article&sol;rochester-glorilla-concert-stampede-finesse2tymes-bed449a961333fa69081b686cb39f7f3" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">AP News<&sol;a><&sol;em><em> <&sol;em>reports that concertgoers began to rush towards the exit in response to what they believed to have been gunshots&period; However&comma; Rochester Police Chief David M&period; Smith notes that authorities &&num;8220&semi;do not have any evidence of gunshots being fired or of anyone being shot or stabbed at the scene&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In spite of there being no evidence of gunfire&comma; a stampede ensued shortly after 11 p&period;m&period; First responders found three critically-injured women upon arriving to the scene&comma; and one victim—aged 33—ultimately passed away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to the surviving two women in critical condition&comma; seven others were transported to nearby hospitals to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Once GloRilla got word of the incident&comma; she acknowledged it on Twitter by noting that she&&num;8217&semi;s praying for those affected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m just now hearing about what happened wtf&period; Praying everybody is ok&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1632609798096035845" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Officials Are Investigating The Matter&colon; &&num;8216&semi;We Are Going To Hold People Accountable&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>According to <em>AP News<&sol;em>&comma; Mayor Malik Evans called the incident &&num;8220&semi;totally unacceptable&&num;8221&semi; and pledged to &&num;8220&semi;get to the bottom of this&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;We are going to hold people accountable for what happened last night&comma; period&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Further detail was provided in a statement that the Rochester Police Department published to social media&comma; and the department noted that it&&num;8217&semi;s focused on &&num;8220&semi;bring&lbrack;ing&rsqb; accountability to those who are culpable&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Investigations are currently assigned to investigate this incident to not only determine what happened&comma; but to bring accountability to those who are culpable for last night&&num;8217&semi;s tragedy&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>After noting that authorities are &&num;8220&semi;hearing many reports of potential causes&comma; including crowd size&comma; shots fired&comma; pepper spray&comma; and more&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the statement details how the investigation is being brought about&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Our Invesigators are interviewing surviving victims&comma; concertgoers&comma; security&comma; and everyone else that has potential information as to what led to this tragedy&period; We are working with the Fire Marshal&&num;8217&semi;s Office to help determine number of concert goers related to the capacity of the venue&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1632771971258695680" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are no further updates on the situation at this time&comma; 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