Trees at Newport school are named in honor of the children killed in Kobe Bryant helicopter crash
Students at Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Beach recently named trees on campus after people who are important to them, including the three children killed in the Jan. 26 helicopter crash that also claimed former Lakers great Kobe Bryant and five other area residents.
One of the young victims was Alyssa Altobelli, 14, an eighth-grader at Ensign.
The helicopter crashed into a hillside in Calabasas while en route to a girls’ club basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. Alyssa played on the Mamba team with Bryant’s daughter Gianna, 13, and Payton Chester, also 13, both of whom also died in the crash.
The other victims were Alyssa’s parents, John and Keri; Payton’s mother, Sarah; Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.
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