{"id":20163,"date":"2022-07-20T12:13:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-dead-after-fall-at-the-weeknds-philadelphia-show\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:13:44","slug":"man-dead-after-fall-at-the-weeknds-philadelphia-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-dead-after-fall-at-the-weeknds-philadelphia-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after fall at The Weeknd&#8217;s Philadelphia show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A man died after plunging from an escalator rail at The Weeknd&#8217;s tour-opening show in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The concertgoer, who has not yet been identified, head trauma after falling about 40 feet at the Lincoln Financial Field on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the 32-year-old man was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital just after 11 pm and was pronounced dead a few minutes after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The tour&#8217;s promoter, Live Nation, was also in charge of promoting Travis Scott&#8217;s deadly Astroworld Festival which led to 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, police told the outlet that the man&#8217;s fall appears to have been accidental, with \u201cno foul play suspected,\u201d the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Lange, Senior Vice President of communications for the Philadelphia Eagles team, which operates the Lincoln, said the incident likely happened after the concert was over as people were leaving the building.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Philadelphia \u2026 we finally did it.  thank you for helping me ring in the tour.  last night was emotional for all of us.  i could feel every single one of you.  next stop NEW YORK ! <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GTopHPk5Mo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GTopHPk5Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Weeknd (@theweeknd) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theweeknd\/status\/1547987287614431233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Post reached out to the Philadelphia Police Department, Live Nation, and Bob Lange for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd&#8217;s \u201cAfter Hours til Dawn\u201d tour showcases the singer&#8217;s top tracks from his fourth and fifth studio albums, 2020&#8217;s \u201cAfter Hours\u201d and \u201cDawn FM\u201d which was released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>The Weeknd&#8217;s tour-opening show was held at the Lincoln Financial Field on July 14.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tour was originally set to kickstart at the Rogers Center in Toronto, but the gig was postponed due to a nationwide power outage, making Philadelphia&#8217;s show the opening concert. <\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd&#8217;s fans waited long for his tour, which was due to kick off in 2020 but was postponed twice due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man died after plunging from an escalator rail at The Weeknd&#8217;s tour-opening show in Philadelphia. The concertgoer, who has not yet been identified, head trauma after falling about 40 feet at the Lincoln Financial Field on July 14. Officials say the 32-year-old man was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital just after 11 pm &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-dead-after-fall-at-the-weeknds-philadelphia-show\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man dead after fall at The Weeknd&#8217;s Philadelphia show<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[2686,46,8756],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20542,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/man-who-died-in-horror-fall-at-the-weeknd-concert-identified\/","url_meta":{"origin":20163,"position":0},"title":"Man who died in horror fall at The Weeknd concert identified","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Authorities have identified Hugo Sanchez as the victim who died in the accidental fall while attending last Thursday's The Weeknd concert in Philadelphia. 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