One of the last things Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna did before boarding the helicopter flight that led to their deaths was attend Sunday church and take communion, according to his priest.
Father Steve Sallot with the Orange County church the Bryant family attends, was one of the last to see him alive.
He told Eyewitness News that Kobe and Gianna stopped by Our Lady Queen of Angels in Newport Beach and received communion before boarding the fatal flight.
"He was here before the 7 a.m. mass and that's our first mass of the day. So he would obviously have been in the prayer chapel before that and he was leaving about 10 to 7," Sallot said.
The helicopter crash was reported at 9:47 a.m. that morning in the Calabasas area.
Fans, family and the community are sharing memories of the nine people killed in the Sunday morning crash.
Before fatal flight, Kobe and daughter attended OC church, took communion, Eucharistic minister says