A 16-year-old has reportedly died while attending Lollapalooza in downtown Chicago, Grant Park on Sunday night, Aug. 5. Chicago Sun-Times reports that the festival attendee, Evan Kitz-Miller, was found unresponsive and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital by private ambulance at 7:50 p.m. on the Sunday evening. Miller was pronounced dead about an hour later.
"The safety and security of festival attendees is our top priority," Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications told Billboard in a statement. "We are saddened to learn that an individual transported from the event in critical condition last night due to a medical emergency has since passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends at this time."
A spokesperson for the festival said no further information regarding the circumstances around Kitz-Miller's death was available. Police are investigating the incident. "We are saddened to learn of the death of an individual who attended Lollapalooza on Sunday," a festival spokesperson explained in a statement. "The individual's family and loved ones are in our thoughts during this difficult time."
"We only know that he had a seizure and that his heart stopped because of the seizure," the boy's mother told Chicago Sun-Times. Her son was attending everyday of the festival, making his way there and back by train from Mundelein. "It was all his favorite artists there and he was having a blast. He loved playing video games and listening to music. He was a good kid."
