A heartbreaking trial. Vanessa Bryant got emotional at the trial regarding photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, and daughter Gianna in January 2020.In his August 2022 opening statements, Vanessa’s attorney Luis Li claimed that cell phone photos from the wreckage were shared by a deputy and fire captain “for a laugh,” and that there was no official reason for them to have been taken in the first place. “Jan.
26, 2020, was and always will be the worst day of Vanessa Bryant’s life,” he told the jury, according to the Associated Press. “They took and shared pictures of Kobe and Gianna as souvenirs. … They poured salt in an unhealable wound.”The basketball legend died at the age of 41 alongside his then 13-year-old daughter and seven other passengers when the helicopter they were on crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California.Li alleged that on the day of the crash, first responders “walked around the wreckage and took pictures of broken bodies from the helicopter crash.
They took close-ups of limbs, of burnt flesh. It shocks the conscience.” He argued that the photos were then “shared repeatedly with people who had absolutely no reason to receive them.”Per the AP, the attorney then showed a video clip of Deputy Joey Cruz, one of the defendants, showing gruesome pictures of the crash and Kobe’s body to a bartender while out at a local bar.
While Li made his remarks, Vanessa quietly cried from her seat in the courtroom.In May 2020, the philanthropist filed a claim against the L.A.
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