When he arrived, a few minutes after being called, Katz said Deputy Douglas Johnson told him that he had canvassed the massive site- and had “already taken over 100 photos” of the remains. Katz testified he was told not to take photos of the crash after another officer had already taken “hundreds.” Mona Shafer Edwards / BACKGRID Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant died in a Jan. Katz, who was part of the Malibu Search and Rescue Team that was deployed to the crash site, testified that he got a radio message from a supervisor ordering him not to take any photos of the accident while heading up a hill to respond to the scene in Calabasas. The officials took the stand during Vanessa Bryant’s federal invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Los Angeles County, which claims that deputies and fire personnel shared photos of her late husband’s disfigured corpse at the crash scene. The body of Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant, was found in a ravine, along with two other victims, Sarah Chester and Keri Altobelli, she testified. Deputy David Katz of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said “pieces of flesh” were hanging from trees at the crash site. He also suffered multiple head and neck injuries, she said. “His hand was amputated traumatically,” Taucher said, adding that the basketball great’s right arm was severed from his body. And blood in various places,” he testified.īryant’s charred and contorted body was found roughly 10 feet from the helicopter’s fuselage and later identified through fingerprints, Captain Emily Taucher, of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office, testified later. “ body parts, spread limbs, pieces of flesh hanging from trees, bushes… that were mixed with various helicopter parts. “At one point, I was standing over two bodies,” Katz told the jury, adding that a larger corpse belonged to the late Lakers star. Los Angeles officials revealed gruesome new details about Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash in court Thursday- including that the NBA legend’s arm was severed and there were “pieces of flesh hanging from trees” at the site of the wreck.ĭavid Katz, a reserve deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, recalled the harrowing accident he responded to in January 2020 during the second day of testimony in Bryant’s widow Vanessa’s federal lawsuit against the county. Here are the dead celebs that will have their Twitter ‘blue checks’ restored
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