# Kobe Bryant Dead in Helicopter Crash

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** celebrity-death, basketball-nba\
**Created:** [January 26, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kobe-bryant-dead-in-helicopter-crash/847010 "2020-01-26T19:33:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kobe-bryant-dead-in-helicopter-crash/847010/111 "2020-01-27T21:47:12Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> Hard for me to consider Kobe’s death a net loss to humanity. I’m not sure how long I’m supposed to hold raping the hotel housekeeper against a guy, but I’m disinclined to let that go. Personally I am nauseated how willing the general pubic was to let it go as well.

Luckily you are not a Washington Post reporter:  
**Washington Post journalist [Felicia Sonmez] is suspended after tweeting a link to a 2016 story about Kobe Bryant’s rape case just hours after he died in helicopter crash**

> **[Journalist who linked to story about Kobe Bryant rape case suspended](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7932771/Journalist-suspended-tweeting-link-story-Kobe-Bryants-rape-case-2003.html)**
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> Felicia Sonmez (right) received death threats after sharing a link about Bryant, who was accused of rape in 2003 by a 19-year-old hotel employee. The charges were dropped and a civil suit was settled.

> **[Opinion | The Post’s misguided suspension of Felicia Sonmez over Kobe Bryant...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/27/posts-misguided-suspension-felicia-sonmez-over-kobe-bryant-tweets/)**
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> A veteran reporter tweets out a news story about Kobe Bryant. What's the problem?

> **[Washington Post Suspends a Reporter After Her Tweets on Kobe Bryant...](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/business/media/kobe-bryant-washington-post-felicia-sonmez.html)**
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> While social media praised the N.B.A. star after his death, Felicia Sonmez posted a link to an article on the allegations of sexual assault made against him in 2003.

Here is a list of all the people who died:  
Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna  
College baseball coach John Altobelli and his wife, Keri, were on board the helicopter with their daughter Alyssa, who played on the same club team as Gianna Bryant.  
Christina Mauser, the top assistant coach of the Mamba girls’ basketball team  
Ara Zobayan, pilot  
Mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester

> **[Mothers, fathers, daughters, coaches: Here are the 9 killed in the Kobe...](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims)**
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> Nine people, including Kobe Bryant, were killed when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in Calabasas.

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