Person Dies At Phish Concert At Chase Center

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One person jumped to their death

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When the dust cleared, Trey stepped to the mic to address the elephant in the room following the heartbreaking events in San Francisco. “Thanks, everybody. Thanks so much. So very, very happy to be here,” he said, his pained body language starkly contrasting his spoken words as he ran a restless hand through his hair.
“I just have to take… I can’t not… speak a little bit from my heart in this moment, if you guys will just bear with me and let me say a few words to our beloved Phish community.” Seemingly battling back tears, Trey continued, “At our last show, we had some really awful stuff that happened, and I just need to… we’ve all been… just, say a couple of words about how heartbroken we all are that the events in San Francisco took place.” “First of all, I just want to name a couple of names here,” he said. “One of the gentlemen who went through the… that had this happen… is a guy named Keith Thompson, and just to show you how tightly-knit our community is, his wife, Carrie, is the event manager for the Sacramento Phish concert that we did. This is how close we all are. So our event manager from the Sacramento concert’s husband, Keith, is in the hospital right now and he had an accidental… it was just… he fell… and we want to send our love to him, and to Carrie.” “And then,” he continued, “I’m gonna also send love to Evan Reeves, who was also involved in the accident, and was able to come back last night and sit over there afterwards, so go Evan! We love you!” “I also want to say a few words for Ryan Prosser, the gentleman who passed away, and the Prosser friends and family,” an emotional Trey added as he fiddled nervously with his top shirt button. “I also want to say very quickly some words to all the people who… I know this affected everybody… and some of the people who were nearby this event, I know, had a lot of feelings… and they experienced this thing. So I’m sending out my love—we all are, I’m speaking for the band—sending our love to everybody in the whole community.” “So, you know,” he added, “any time you have a series of events with large groups of people, things are gonna happen, but I don’t know if I can express how much we feel a part of this group of people who are here tonight and every night. And the people who can’t be here, watching on TV. We very much know and feel that we’re just four more people in this group who happen to be up here and you guys are standing there, but when something like this happens, it hurts us very deeply, and we want to send our love. Please be safe, and everybody have a great time.”

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