A 24-year-old fan of Trophy Eyes has been left partially paralysed after frontman John Floreani stage dived on top of her during a gig in New York last month.
During a show at Mohawk Place in Buffalo on April 30, Floreani stagedived into the crowd and left fan Bird Piché with serious injuries which required emergency surgery.
The band released a statement at the time sharing that they were “truly heartbroken”, along with sharing a GoFundMe campaign link to raise money for Piché.
According to Buffalo TV station WKBW (via New York Post), the concertgoer suffered a “catastrophic spinal cord injury” and can currently only move her arms.
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— Trophy Eyes (@trophyeyesmusic) May 3, 2024
Footage from the event shows the moment Floreani leaps into the crowd and seemingly lands directly on top of Piché.
“The video is wild because unless you knew that someone was hurt in the video, you’d never expect that,” Piché’s friend Leo Wolter Tejera, who was at the concert, told the outlet. “Like it’s just an average stage dive.”
“She wasn’t getting up, and John, the singer, was like right there with her,” Tejera added.
They continued: “To my understanding and the conversation we’ve heard so far from doctors is with catastrophic spinal injuries, you just can’t tell and they take a lot of time and patience to see what the outcome is really gonna be.”
Bird’s GoFundMe has currently raised $64,741 (£51,715) of a $100,000 (£79,881) target. Trophy Eyes have made a $5,000 (£3,993) donation to the campaign.
“She has a long recovery ahead and will need all the help she can get,” the campaign description reads. “It is still too early to know what her prognosis is but after leaving the hospital she will need to go to a rehab facility. She will obviously not be able to work during this time.”
Trophy Eyes’ original statement said that the incident had “shaken us all to our core”, adding: “Please, keep Bird in your thoughts. We remain in close contact with them and will expand on this as new news arrives.”
In a statement shared with WKBW, a general manager of Mohawk Place said crowd-surfing was forbidden and that signs were posted “everywhere”.
As reported by Stereogum, Trophy Eyes have a history of incidents relating to stagediving. After an Atlanta show in 2023, a fan criticised them for “encouraging mosh pits and crowd surfing”, to which the band replied in the comments: “fuck you”.
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