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Los Angeles, CA – A jury awarded $30 million in damages on Wednesday to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Los Angeles County over the improper taking and sharing of pictures from the fatal helicopter crash which claimed the lives of NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others in 2020.
Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, was initially awarded $16 million by the jury, but a juror pointed out an error in the verdict, according to Yahoo Sports . It was initially the intent of the jury that plaintiffs Vanessa Bryant and Christopher Chester split $30 million in damages.
After the juror pointed out the error, Vanessa Bryant agreed and her awarded damages were reduced to $15 million.
Kobe Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, died on Jan. 26, 2020, when the helicopter flying them and six friends to a basketball tournament at Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks crashed into a Los Angeles County hillside.
Shortly after the crash that left nine people dead, pictures of the crash site and Bryant’s decapitated body were circulated by first responders who had been at the scene of the helicopter wreck.
LASD Sheriff Alex Villanueva initially expressed horror when he learned that five full-time deputies and three reservists had been involved in taking graphic photographs of the mangled wreckage in the wake of the helicopter crash, KMSB reported.
“I was horrified,” Sheriff Villanueva said. “I just felt betrayed by my own deputies.”
“It’s such a hard thing to do as a first responder, go to a scene of such a horrific accident, talking to the families, three families that were there at the Lost Hills station, personally, and their concerns about privacy, and how we could make the day better for them if any way possible,” the sheriff continued. “And to have this happen, it was heartbreaking.”The deputies were sent […]
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