More on the death of Kobe Bryant, others in helicopter crash
View this email with images. What we know about victims, investigation the day after the crash |
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LA'S LEGEND | It was clear on Sunday that in death, as in life, Kobe Bryant united not just a city, but a region. From the Inland Empire to the far reaches of LA County — Bryant was a defining, and inspiring, figure for a generation of Southern Californians who watched him grow up in one city, on one team, for two decades. | |
INVESTIGATION BEGINS | On Monday morning, about two dozen investigators, some wearing backpacks and blue jackets, could be seen inspecting the site about a few hundred feet up the slope of a massive hill about a half mile to the east of the Las Virgenes Water District offices. | |
HEARTBROKEN | Sarah Chester was “the one that everybody counted on.” Her daughter Payton was “the gentlest person you would ever meet.” A brother and uncle remembers two of those lost in the crash. | |
LOVING MOTHER, COACH | Christina Mauser served as Kobe Bryant’s hard-nosed, top assistant coach on their girls youth basketball team. But there was another side to the beloved wife and mother of three children. “She was super tough but loving." | |
A COMMUNITY GRIEVES | Most victims were from Newport Beach, which held a vigil last night. “When we lose fathers and mothers and daughters and sons and those lights go out, we come together as a community. That’s who we are,” said Mayor Will O’Neill. | |
FATHER-DAUGHTER TRIBUTE | In LA, it took only hours for street mural artist Jules Muck to paint a portrait of Bryant and his daughter Gianna. “This was something I felt was homegrown, in the kind of old tradition of memorial murals,” she said. | |
PURPLE AND GOLD | A memorial outside the gated community in Newport Coast off of North Pelican Hill Road that holds Bryant’s family home continued to grow as mourners left flowers – many yellow and some purple, Laker colors. | |
ROCK STAR | Columnist Mark Whicker writes “He came on like the Jackson Five and he aged like Eric Clapton, and, given the chance, he might have been Tony Bennett.” | |
GAME POSTPONED | The Lakers first game since Bryant's death was planned for Tuesday at Staples Center against the Clippers. But the NBA announced Monday the game would be postponed. | |
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