Former UCLA star and NBA player Tyler Honeycutt dead of apparent suicide after a shootout with police

[HuffPost]

Former basketball player for the Sacramento Kings, Tyler Honeycutt, was found dead Saturday after an hourslong standoff with the Los Angeles Police Department, according to local reports. Police said Honeycutt fired a gun at officers but did not hit anyone. Officers returned fire but Honeycutt was not struck.

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[Yahoo Sports Videos]

Tyler Honeycutt, a former UCLA star and Sacramento Kings draft pick, was found dead in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles on Saturday morning following a shootout with police officers, per ABC 7. He was 27.

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[NBC Sports BayArea]

Covering the NBA has its ups and downs. Players are human, they have faults and sometimes they get in trouble. News broke late Friday evening that former Sacramento Kings draft pick, Tyler Honeycutt, was barricaded inside a Sherman Oaks residence. After

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[The Associated Press]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former coach and family friend says onetime Sacramento Kings and UCLA basketball player Tyler Honeycutt was found dead after a standoff with Los Angeles police. Bort Escoto, who coached Honeycutt at Sylmar High School, tells the

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[NBC Sports]

Tyler Honeycutt, a second-round pick of the Sacramento Kings back in 2011 who went on to play 24 games with the team over a couple of seasons, has been found dead in an apparent suicide in a Los Angeles area home after a barricade incident with police, where Honeycutt was armed and fired a shot at police. A SWAT team entered the home and located an unresponsive male, who was pronounced dead at the scene, the Los Angeles Police Department tweeted at 3:45 a.m. ABC7.com confirmed the identity of the person found dead was Honeycutt, who had played his college ball at UCLA.

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[Yahoo Sports]

Tyler Honeycutt, a former UCLA star and Sacramento Kings draft pick, was found dead in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles on Saturday morning following a shootout with police officers, per ABC 7. He was 27. Honeycutt’s agent Aaron Mintz confirmed his

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[The Independent]

Basketball player Tyler Honeycutt has died following a stand-off with police in America, according to reports. The mother of the 27-year-old who had previously played for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA, reportedly said her son was acting “erratically” on Friday evening. Mr Honeycott’s high school coach and family friend Bort Escoto told the LA Times that Mr Honeycutt's mother asked him to call the police after sharing concerns about her son’s behaviour.

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[The Independent]

Basketball player Tyler Honeycutt has died following a stand-off with police in America, according to reports. The mother of the 27-year-old who had previously played for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA, reportedly said her son was acting “erratically” on Friday evening. Mr Honeycott’s high school coach and family friend Bort Escoto told the LA Times that Mr Honeycutt's mother asked him to call the police after sharing concerns about her son’s behaviour.

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[The Associated Press]

A former coach and family friend of onetime Sacramento Kings and UCLA basketball player Tyler Honeycutt says he had grown increasingly concerned about the young man before he was found dead following a standoff with Los Angeles police. Bort Escoto, who coached Honeycutt in high school, told the Los Angeles Times that Honeycutt's mother called him early Saturday to say her son had killed himself.

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