FORT WORTH, Texas — An opiate addict and dealer operating in the bowels of Angel Stadium, where he worked handling press inquiries, provided to a starting pitcher a fentanyl-laced pill that led him to aspirate vomit and die during a road trip to Texas in 2019, a jury in Fort Worth found on Thursday.
Tyler Skaggs, hiding his own use of oxycodone from relatives, died facedown with his legs hanging off a bed at a Southlake Hilton hotel where he and 66 other Los Angeles Angels players and other employees stayed the night before a series with the Rangers was to begin.
After hearing evidence and argument over eight days and deliberating for about 90 minutes, the jury in U.S. District Court found Eric Kay guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death and serious bodily injury.
