Last Updated on January 30, 2020 by CCAR Staff
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner on Wednesday night officially identified five more people killed Sunday in the crash of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter in Calabasas.
Each of the five had previously been named by friends or family.
Those identified Wednesday were:
–Bryant’s daughter Gianna Bryant, 13, a point guard for the Orange County-based Mambas, Kobe Bryant’s elite travel basketball team.
—Payton Chester, 13, a Mambas player and a student at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School.
—Alyssa Altobelli, 14, a Mambas player and a student at Ensign Intermediate.
–Keri Altobelli, 46, Alyssa’s mother.
—Christina Mauser, 38, a coach in Kobe Bryant’s basketball program and also at Harbor Day School in Corona del Mar.
The five people were identified after testing and analysis of DNA, coroner officials said.
Those identified by coroner officials earlier were Kobe Bryant, 41; Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, 56, father of Alyssa and husband of Keri; Sarah Chester, 45, Newport Beach, mother of Payton; and pilot Ara Zobayan, 50, a Huntington Beach resident.
The first four identifications were confirmed through fingerprints, officials said.
In a statement, the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said the cause of death for all nine people was certified as blunt trauma and the manner of death was certified as “accident.”
