So many Kobe Bryant fans have converged on the Calabasas area where he and eight others were killed Sunday morning in a helicopter crash that authorities have restricted the area to residents only. “It is off limits to everybody,” he said of the crash site, noting that the Federal Aviation Administration has a 5-mile no-fly zone around it up to altitudes of 5,000 feet. “People, stay away.”Authorities have closed the offramps of the 101 Freeway at Las Virgenes Road as well as other roads near the crash site. Earlier in the day, more than 400 fans gathered near the crash site yelling chants of “MVP” and “Kobe, Kobe.” The crowd, many of them wearing Bryant’s No. AdvertisementIrvin Guillermo of Northridge, clad in his purple Lakers bomber jacket, said: “I am here to honor Kobe Bryant.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2020 04:52 UTC