Mike Trout wears a jersey honoring late teammate Tyler Skaggs as he speaks to Angels communications director Eric Kay in July 2019. A federal court has rejected former Angels communications director Eric Kay’s appeal of his two felony convictions in the death of Tyler Skaggs in a terse, four-page ruling that affirmed Kay’s guilt for supplying the fentanyl-laced oxycodone that …
The trial of ex-Angels employee Eric Kay in connection with the overdose death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs has been delayed for a third time. The order said that “a failure to grant a continuance would deny counsel for the defendant the reasonable time necessary for effective preparation …” The trial was supposed to begin Aug. 16 in Fort Worth, but …
Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs leaves the field during a pitching change against the Toronto Blue Jays on June 18, 2019, in Toronto. “The Angels Organization strongly disagrees with the claims made by the Skaggs family and we will vigorously defend these lawsuits in court.” In a separate statement, Mead’s attorney, Eric Vandevelde, said his client “was not aware, informed or …
