Vanessa Bryant filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, arguing that deputies shared unauthorized pictures of the site where her husband and daughter passed away in a January helicopter crash, according to Reuters.
The claim, which is a stepping stone to a lawsuit, was filed Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the January 26 crash, retired Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others were killed.
Vanessa Bryant contends in the allegation that Sheriff Alex Villanueva “personally assured her” that the privacy of the family would be protected as it relates to the Calabasas, Calif accident site. Her husband and daughter had been part of a group traveling by helicopter to a youth basketball tournament.
“In reality, however, no fewer than eight sheriff’s deputies were at the scene snapping cell-phone photos of the dead children, parents, and coaches,” according to the claim, the Times reported. “As the department would later admit, there was no investigative purpose for deputies to take pictures at the crash site. Rather, the deputies took photos for their own personal purposes.”
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