It completely stunned me. My in-laws came to town to take my wife and I out for a belated birthday lunch. We had stopped in LaRosa's and someone walked by our table saying something about Kobe that didn't seem to make sense. It didn't compute in my mind it could be real that I heard him say Kobe had passed. I looked up to a TV that was on the wall and the disbelief extended to the TV screen. It was showing as clear as day that Kobe indeed had passed but I just couldn't process it for a few moments as I heard other's around me gasping at the news as they looked on.