The helicopter crash site photos of Kobe were the subject of a trial.
The captain gave testimony about the condition of the victims' bodies after the crash.
She gave an insight into the gruesome scene likely captured in improper crash photos.
Kobe Bryant and his daughter were killed in a helicopter crash in 2020 and a top Los Angeles County Coroner testified about the state of his body.
The second day of the trial against Los Angeles County was dominated by testimony from the head of investigations at the LA County Coroner's office.
The gruesome scene that was likely captured in the photos taken by LA County sheriff's deputies and fire captains can be seen in the painting. She highlighted a more ad-hoc approach to site photography in the sheriff's department's system, which allowed the improper photos to be taken and shared.
On January 26, 2020, a helicopter transporting Kobe Bryant, the couple's 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, as well as baseball coach John Altobelli and his family crashed near Malibu as they were going to a girls basketball game The pilot was one of the nine people who died in the crash.
Bryant sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the county's fire department, the county as a whole, and eight officers in the wake of reports that first responders took and shared photos of the crash site.
Chris Chester, whose wife Sarah and daughter Peyton died in the crash, is also suing county workers on the same federal and state claims.
A key witness for Bryant and Chester gave jurors a mental image of the photos allegedly taken by the defendants. Bryant and Chester walked away from the courtroom.
The impact zone was larger than two football fields and the victims' wounds were so bad that they had to be identified. Kobe Bryant had tattoos on his arm.
She told the courtroom that the families were not invited to identify their loved ones after the crash because of how badly the remains were mangled.
She said that what someone looks like in death is not the same as what they look like in life. "Seeing someone you love in that state creates an image that stays with them for the rest of their lives."
About 300 of the 1,250 photos taken by the coroner's office were of human remains, according to testimony. She said that the coroner's office didn't request photos of the remains.
The team leader of the LASD Malibu Search and Rescue testified that the deputy had taken hundreds of photos on his phone.
Bryant wants the county defendants to pay him damages. She is suing the county for negligent, emotional distress, and invasion of privacy claims, as well as federal claims which relate to the constitutional right to the images of her dead loved ones, and LA County agency practices that led to the alleged taking and dissemination of photos.
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