Lavoie suggested he was talking about the condition of the bodies he saw in the photos from Cruz.īut Gutierrez often testified he didn’t remember what he said that night to different people. After looking at Cruz's phone, the video also showed Gutierrez approaching other patrons at the restaurant and making hand gestures to his throat, head and torso as he spoke to them. The video, which did not include audio of their voices, showed the two looking at Cruz’s phone, and then Gutierrez reacting with laughter. Cruz is expected to testify next week, but Gutierrez gave his account of their interactions that night on Thursday. The jury was shown several surveillance video clips from the bar in Norwalk on the night Cruz visited.
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She is joined at the trial for this case by plaintiff Chris Chester, who lost his wife and daughter in the same crash and is suing the county for the same reasons.īoth are seated in front of a jury of six men and four women who will be tasked with determining whether their privacy rights were violated by the county’s conduct, even though the county says the photos were deleted soon after the accident and never were posted online.Īfter Wednesday's dramatic opening statements, Thursday's events gave the jury much to consider: The bartender on video She sued the county after the crash, accusing county sheriff’s and fire department employees of taking and sharing photos of her deceased loved ones from the crash scene despite not having a government reason for doing so. “I don’t know if they were men or women.”īryant cried, then got up, left and didn't return Thursday. “Did you also see what appeared to be a girl in any of the photos?” Lavoie asked. Gutierrez said the deputy trainee, Joey Cruz, asked him at his bar that night if he wanted to see a photo of Kobe Bryant’s body. This was Day 2 of Bryant’s civil trial against Los Angeles County – a day that delved into graphic details from the crash scene and featured testimony from five witnesses, including the former bartender in Norwalk, California. “Yes,” replied the former bartender, Victor Gutierrez. “Did you see a human torso in the photo that you understood to be Kobe Bryant?” asked one of Bryant’s attorneys, Craig Jennings Lavoie. LOS ANGELES – Vanessa Bryant sobbed and excused herself from a federal courtroom here Thursday as a former bartender from an area Mexican restaurant testified about being shown photos of body parts from the helicopter crash in January 2020 that killed nine, including her daughter Gianna and husband, Kobe, the NBA legend.īryant left the courtroom after the former bartender recounted how a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy trainee came to his restaurant and showed him photos from the crash scene two days after the accident. Warning: This story contains descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Watch Video: Remembering Kobe: His final interview, his death and his legacy
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