Retired Marine recounts the horror of Astroworld music festival

LOS ANGELES - An Arcadia man who served our country recounted the traumatic moments during Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival.

FOX 11 spoke with Lucas Naccarati, a retired U.S. Marine who says he was stuck in the middle of the jam-packed crowd near the stage when the rapper performed. 

Naccarati remembers performing CPR on two strangers, including a woman who fainted in his arms, after a violent wave of a crowd broke out at the festival.

"I laid her down, started yelling at her," he said. "No pulse… immediately started to do CPR on her."

That woman regained consciousness, unlike a man Naccarati tried to save after he watched him get trampled earlier.

"He was lifeless," Naccarati said. "His lips were just dark."

The retired U.S. Marine does not blame Scott for the traumatic events taking place. Naccarati does, however, blame a lack of medically-trained security and venue personnel. Naccarati says he's struggling to cope with something that shouldn't have happened.

"All I can do is pray for my peace and the peace of other families," he said.

Below is the full interview with Naccarati:

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