{"id":2447588,"date":"2019-08-15T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/a-fan-has-reportedly-died-after-falling-ill-at-a-slipknot-show"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:54:00","slug":"reports-fan-passes-away-after-falling-ill-at-a-slipknot-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/reports-fan-passes-away-after-falling-ill-at-a-slipknot-show\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORTS: Fan Passes Away After Falling Ill At A Slipknot Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\">\n<p>Very sad news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/slipknot2019.png\"><\/p>\n<p>A fan has reportedly died after falling ill at&nbsp;<strong>Slipknot<\/strong>&#8216;s Knotfest Road Show in&nbsp;Tinley Park, llinois.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/illinois\/tinleypark\/zion-man-dies-after-attending-heavy-metal-fest-tinley-park\">Patch<\/a> report that other fans at Knotfest at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre&nbsp;on August 11 saw the man, identified as 62-year-old Richard Valadez, fall to the ground during the band\u2019s set on Sunday.&nbsp;He was pronounced dead later that night.<\/p>\n<p>One witness statement shared that after falling to the ground in a mosh pit, the man suffered what appeared to be a seizure as people tried to help him up. It has been reported that two men gave him CPR while waiting for medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of his death is not yet known, and an autopsy is pending.<\/p>\n<p>The promoter of Knotfest has not yet made an official statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/a-fan-has-reportedly-died-after-falling-ill-at-a-slipknot-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very sad news. A fan has reportedly died after falling ill at&nbsp;Slipknot&#8216;s Knotfest Road Show in&nbsp;Tinley Park, llinois. Patch report that other fans at Knotfest at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre&nbsp;on August 11 saw the man, identified as 62-year-old Richard Valadez, fall to the ground during the band\u2019s set on Sunday.&nbsp;He was pronounced dead later that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 07:15:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}