Ciro Castro, a 28-year-old fan from Maspeth, Queens, watched in disbelief from the second row as a prop collapsed on Marilyn Manson at a concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York last night.
“It was so fast, at first I thought it was part of the show. But then I saw the guitarist’s face, and the faces of some of the others who rushed over and they looked scared — really scared,” Castro told the New York Daily News. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is not a joke.’”
As the crew rushed to lift the prop off Manson, the singer lay motionless, Castro said.
“He moved for a minute at first but then he was still. They turned off the lights but we could see they were trying to cover him with a blanket,” Castro said.
It took at least 10 minutes for emergency responders to get Manson onto a stretcher.
Castro said fans began to file out after someone turned on the lights and said the concert was over.
“They said Marilyn had been injured and the concert was canceled,” he said.
