A former City of Houston Police Commander said he and other first responders were bracing for chaos at the Astroworld festival tragedy nearly one year ago. Ten people died that week, hundreds were injured, and some families still don’t have answers.
“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.Lentini’s premonition would become his reality. He was relieved of duty a few months later, which pushed him to the decision to retire.
That night, Lentini said he was working an extra job for the city, which happened to be the Astroworld Festival. The job was outside of HPD’s payroll and paid $65 an hour, nearly double the normal rate, according to emails shared with KPRC 2 Investigates.“From the get-go, everybody knew it was going to be a bad deal,” says Lentini. “No one wanted to be there for chaos.”“The department knew that there was going to be, or the potential was there for something bad to happen,” he said.
“We’re so screwed. That is what kept going through my mind... ‘We are so screwed, there is no good outcome of this right now,’” Lentini tells us. When asked if he saw any misconduct, Lentini said, “Not at my level. Astroworld holds a magical place in most Houstonian’s hearts. It was a very Houston-based thing and it turned out to be a literal disaster, and I think everybody involved would be much happier if everybody else just forgot about it.”
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