{"id":35526,"date":"2022-12-17T17:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/asake-gives-statement-after-fan-dies-following-brixton-incident\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T17:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T17:28:39","slug":"asake-provides-assertion-after-fan-dies-following-brixton-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/asake-provides-assertion-after-fan-dies-following-brixton-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Asake provides assertion after fan dies following Brixton incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/asake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asake<\/a> has responded to the information of the dying of a fan who was injured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/four-asake-fans-in-critical-condition-after-disturbance-at-brixton-academy-gig-3367923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">throughout the incident at his Brixton present on Thursday night time<\/a> (December 15).<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/woman-injured-during-asakes-o2-academy-brixton-show-dies-due-to-injuries-3368308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, had died of accidents sustained within the incident<\/a>, which noticed lots of of individuals breach the doorways of the O2 Academy Brixton throughout Asake\u2019s live performance. The present was cancelled after round three songs when the venue grew to become overcrowded. Two different ladies, aged 21 and 23, stay in a crucial situation in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Asake has printed a press release in response to the information, revealing that he had spoken to Ikumelo\u2019s household \u201cand will continue to do so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am devastated by the news that Rebecca Ikumelo who was in a critical condition since Thursday has sadly passed away,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMy sincerest condolences to her loved ones at this time. Let us please keep her family in our prayers. I have spoken to them and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am overwhelmed with grief and could never have imagined anything like this happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team and I are still awaiting the full debrief back from the Venue management and the Police to determine what exactly led to all the disruption caused and ultimately to Rebecca\u2019s passing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have any relevant information relating to this please do reach out to the Metropolitan Police.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmRbwaysMfh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Academy Music Group (AMG), who owns the venue in addition to the opposite O2 Academy venues across the nation, has additionally issued a press release on social media by way of its press workplace in response to the information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll at O2 Academy Brixton and Academy Music Group are deeply saddened by the information of the tragic dying of Rebecca Ikumelo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe send our heartfelt condolences to Rebecca\u2019s family and friends, and our thoughts are with everyone affected by this devastating news at this difficult time,\u201d the assertion learn.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6jzgK61uV7\">pic.twitter.com\/6jzgK61uV7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AMG Press Office (@AMGPressOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMGPressOffice\/status\/1604116064576720902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police are finishing up an pressing investigation, wherein they&#8217;re consulting footage posted on social media and from police physique worn cameras [via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/woman-dies-after-being-injured-in-brixton-concert-crush-12769828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>SkyNews<\/em><\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/2manydjs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2ManyDJs<\/a> postponed their present that was meant to be happening on the venue tonight (December 17) within the aftermath of the incident. The gig has been rescheduled for February 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Asake has responded to the information of the dying of a fan who was injured throughout the incident at his Brixton present on Thursday night time (December 15). Police confirmed that Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, had died of accidents sustained within the incident, which noticed lots of of individuals breach the doorways of the O2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}