24-year-old concertgoer Fowl Piché suffered a devastating crowd damage whereas attending an April thirtieth Trophy Eyes present at Mohawk Place in Buffalo, NY. Throughout that live performance, Trophy Eyes‘ vocalist John Floreani jumped backwards from the stage into the group, touchdown immediately on high of Piché, together with a number of different concertgoers.
Consequently Piché, suffered a traumatic spinal twine damage that left her partially paralyzed within the rapid aftermath, with a prolonged restoration course of following. Piché‘s mom initially informed native information outlet WKBW simply after the incident that her daughter had suffered a damaged neck from Floreani‘s stage dive.
In gentle of the incident, over $88,000 was raised by way of crowdfunding for Piché. Amongst these to contribute have been Trophy Eyes, who provided up $5,000. Mohawk Place additionally contributed $500 to the trigger. Unconfirmed preliminary studies additionally indicated that Floreani rode alongside within the ambulance with Piché to the hospital.
Per a Might 2025 report, Piché was hopeful to ultimately make a full restoration. Nonetheless, her criticism, which was filed on November twelfth of this 12 months in Buffalo, NY, makes point out of her struggling everlasting damage from the incident. Whereas an replace on her present well being doesn’t seem to have been offered, Piché informed NBC Information this previous Might of her situation after the incident:
“…They do suppose I’ll have full restoration. Nothing is definite, clearly, however they’re predicting l could have full restoration of all the pieces. So my legs, it’s involuntary, have been kicking so much currently. I can’t management it. My arms, they’re — apart from my hand dexterity — nearly absolutely there. My fingers don’t have full motion.”
Piché‘s criticism names John Floreani, Trophy Eyes, Mohawk Place and the aforementioned live performance’s promoter, After Darkish Leisure, Inc., as defendants. Her go well with alleges negligence on their elements in permitting the damage to happen. She is presently searching for judgment on an undisclosed quantity in damages for the incident. WGRZ have republished her criticism on-line in full, do you have to wish to delve in additional.
On Might 03rd, a number of days after the incident on the Buffalo, NY live performance, Trophy Eyes issued the under assertion on the matter:
“As the results of a tragic accident on the night time of April thirtieth, a Trophy Eyes fan was injured at our Buffalo NY present. We elected to instantly shut down the present as John accompanied them to the hospital with their household.
Out of respect for the household, we’ve got shunned talking about this publicly thus far, however with the blessing of their household we are actually in a position to say how really heartbroken we’re to be right here now. Our buddy, Fowl, is now in restoration, however nonetheless has a protracted street forward for them. A gofundme has been arrange by their household… [donate]
This case has shaken us all to our core, and we ask for persistence whereas we glance to assist Fowl navigate this troublesome time. Please, preserve Fowl in your ideas. We stay in shut contact with them and can develop on this as new information arrives.
Yours faithfully, Trophy Eyes“
In 2023, Trophy Eyes‘ penchant for encouraging crowd dives made headlines. A fan upset concerning the matter took to social media to name out the group, stating:
“First time I ever heard of you guys was the live performance in Atlanta tonight and the lead singer saved encouraging mosh pits and crowd browsing, which made nearly all of us, who have been there for Towards the Present, really feel very unsafe and must go to the sidelines, which isn’t truthful as a result of we have been there earlier than your loopy followers.
I nearly had a panic assault. I didn’t even get the possibility to seek out out if I appreciated your songs as a result of I needed to preserve worrying about getting kicked within the head.”
Trophy Eyes immediately replied on that put up by way of social media, responding “fuck you.” Their terse response shortly went viral, with the band later immortalizing the second, promoting a shirt that featured a screencap of that trade with the title of the upset concertoger redacted.
In the meantime, Mohawk Place have been mentioned to have lengthy enforced a no stage diving/crowd browsing coverage at their reveals as a consequence of a 2011 incident. The actual incident noticed the venue named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit after a person attending a Terror & Trapped Beneath Ice present was injured on the venue.
That concertgoer was mentioned to suffered a damaged C5 and C6 vertebrae as a consequence of that accident and his ensuing lawsuit reportedly put the membership’s future in jeopardy on the time.
Footage of Floreani‘s aforementioned stage dive on the coronary heart of this lawsuit stays on-line and could be seen under. In that clip, Piché is known to be the concertgoer standing near the entrance of the stage with pink curly hair.
