Concert Stage Dive Leaves Woman in Crowd Paralyzed with ‘Catastrophic’ Spinal Injury: Reports

A 24-year-old woman attending a recent concert in Buffalo was hospitalized with a severe spinal cord injury as a result of a band member jumping into the crowd, according to a friend of the woman.

During a show by the Australian band Trophy Eyes on April 30, the lead singer reportedly leaped into the crowd from the stage at Buffalo concert venue Mohawk Place, which has a capacity of 237 people.

Among those in the crowd was the 24-year-old woman, Bird Piché, who was seriously injured in the incident, Leo Wolters Tejera, a friend of the woman’s, told WGRZ-TV in a story published Thursday.

Multiple outlets reported that Piché was partially paralyzed in the accident.

Tejera said the incident occurred when Trophy Eyes’ singer “stage dove into the crowd, and there must just not have been enough people around there to catch him, or they weren’t aware that he was going to jump.”

He said fans near Piché thought she had fainted, but she remained on the floor not moving.

“She wasn’t getting up, and John, the singer, was was like right there with her,” Tejera said. “So yeah, they took her right to the hospital into emergency trauma surgery, and then she was admitted.”

Piché is breathing on her own and is able to use her arms to communicate by text, WGRZ reported Thursday, adding that she is in a regular hospital room and that the band’s lead singer went with her to the hospital.