A federal jury today ordered Los Angeles County to pay $31 million in damages over the actions of first-responders who snapped and shared gruesome photos from the scene of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed Laker legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people.The damages were awarded to Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, and co-plaintiff Chris Chester, whose wife Sarah and 13-year-old daughter Payton also died in the Jan.
26, 2020, crash on a Calabasas hillside. The jury awarded Bryant $16 million and Chester $15 million.Jurors in downtown Los Angeles reached their verdict after roughly four and a half hours of deliberations.The award comes just one day after what would have been the Lakers legend’s 44th birthday.
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