FORT WORTH, Texas - A key question in determining whether former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay is responsible for the drug-related death of Tyler Skaggs is determining exactly what killed him.
And if the jury ended week one of the U.S. v Eric Kay confused, it wouldn't be a surprise. The case against Kay is built on the government's contention that he gave Skaggs pills laced with fentanyl, and that the fentanyl directly caused Skaggs' death.
The official ruling by the medical examiner in 2019, however, was that Skaggs did have fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in his system, but that died by asphyxiation after vomiting.