"A coroner's report released more than six years ago found that Skaggs had the powerful painkillers fentanyl and oxycodone in his system, as well as alcohol, and had choked on his vomit before he died in a Texas hotel room at the beginning of a team road trip. The fentanyl which was inside a counterfeit oxycodone pill was key to an earlier criminal trial against Eric Kay, the Angels communications staffer who had been providing Skaggs and other players with illicit opioids."
"Dr. Shaun Carstairs an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist who testified on Wednesday and Friday as an expert on behalf of the team said the mix of multiple substances led to Skaggs' death. Carstairs estimated that Skaggs had consumed 11 to 13 alcoholic drinks likely on the team flight to Texas and then after arriving at his hotel chopped up the counterfeit pill with a room key and used a hollowed out ballpoint pen to snort the powder."
Jurors face dueling explanations over which substance or combination caused Tyler Skaggs' death as opposing experts testify for the Angels and Skaggs' family. A coroner's report found fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol in Skaggs' system and concluded he choked on his vomit in a Texas hotel room. An earlier jury focused on fentanyl inside a counterfeit oxycodone pill, convicted Eric Kay, and imposed a more than 20-year sentence after finding that pill caused the death. The current Orange County jury must decide what role oxycodone and alcohol played and whether the Los Angeles Angels bear responsibility. Team expert Dr. Shaun Carstairs testified that multiple substances mixed caused the death.
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