A former L.A. County fire captain walked off the witness stand three times during testimony while being questioned about whether he took photos of human remains at the helicopter crash scene that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others.
Jordan never turned over his personal cellphone to investigators, which has been a point of contention in this lawsuit. He did turn over his county-issued devices, but Bryant's attorney Li had a question about that for Jordan."I have no clue," Jordan replied, adding that he did not manipulate any of the devices or remove the hard drive.
Versales then forwarded the photos to four other members of the LASD - Deputy Rafael Mejia, Detective Scott Miller, Deputy Scott Jauregui and Sgt. Travis Kelly. Versales claims he sent them the photos because he thought they might have some investigative role to play at the scene and because he knew of no policy that prohibited sending the photos.
Versales says no one at LASD ever told him to preserve his phone despite Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit. He replaced it in October 2020 and the phone he later turned over for a forensic examination was his new phone. "Did it ever occur to you that the photos you sent might contain images of a child?" Jennings Lavoie asked Mejia.
On cross-examination, Mejia told the jury that the scene was chaotic that day with "fans storming the area" and "jumping over fences." He says they needed the photos to identify the helicopter and determine how big of an area to cordon off from the gathering crowds.
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