44-year-old Eric Kay is the Los Angeles Angels Communications Director who confessed to DEA agents investigating Skaggs’ death that he’d hooked him up with oxycodone for years and also gave the names of five other players who he believed were using opiates while they were Angels.

Eric Kay Education

Kay attended Pepperdine University and graduated in 1996 with a degree in public relations. He listed Sig Ep Fraternity under activities.

Eric Kay Career

Kay lists his title as stadium media operations for the Rose Bowl Game for 15 years.

He’s worked in Communications for Angels baseball for 23 years in the edition of the Los Angeles Angels’ magazine. Before that, he served as an intern for the Anaheim Ducks for 1 year in the 1990s. He was an intern in 1994 for the Los Angeles Rams.

Eric Kay Parents

Kay’s father died in 1998 and Tim Mead took over that father figure role in his life. His mother is an interior designer in Orange County.

According to her Facebook page, she says her son’s opioid abuse started a couple of years after his father died. She also stated that in April he was recovering from an overdose in the hospital.

Eric Kay Wife and Children

Kay is married to wife Camela. Their Facebook pages are filled with photos of their children and family life.

Eric Kay Allegations

It's supposed that Kay told government agents that he gave oxycodone to Tyler Skaggs and mishandled it with him for quite a long time. Quinn likewise charges that two group authorities were told about Skaggs' medication utilize well before his demise.

Kay has not been captured or accused of anything regarding Skaggs' demise, however.Kay gave government specialists "the names of five different players who he accepted were utilizing sedatives while they were Angels.Kay is blamed for telling agents he gave three "illicitly got" oxycodone pills to Skaggs without further ado before Skaggs left for a game in Texas yet doesn't believe they're similar ones that murdered him.

Quinn revealed that Kay has an attorney, Michael Molfetta, who affirmed a portion of the details.Kay purportedly denied, in any case, and supposedly told the DEA he saw Skaggs breathe in 3 lines … 2 he supposedly perceived as conceivable oxycodone, and a third line comprising of a substance he didn't recognize.Kay supposedly disclosed to DEA specialists that prior hours Skaggs passed on, Skaggs messaged Kay to visit him in his lodging and "Skaggs grunted three lines of squashed narcotics before him." He guaranteed he didn't utilize medicates in that meeting.

DEA operators additionally allegedly found a few Venmo exchanges among Skaggs and Kay, running from $150 to $600 more than 2 years.Kay is said to have been put on paid leave and is likewise apparently in outpatient treatment himself for substance abuse.John Carpino, leader of the Heavenly attendants, said in an announcement: "We have never heard that any worker was giving illicit opiates to any player, or that any player was looking for unlawful opiates.

The Heavenly attendants keep up a severe zero-resilience arrangement with respect to the unlawful utilization of medications for the two players and staff.""Every one of our players should likewise maintain the MLB Joint Medication Understanding. We keep on grieving the loss of Tyler and completely coordinate with the specialists as they proceed with their examination."

Eric Kay Attorney, Michael Molfetta

"I simply realize that endeavors to censure any one individual for someone else's habit are amazingly innocent," Molfetta said. "I think any endeavors to fault Eric Kay for what happened are foolish and misinformed. At the point when every one of the realities turn out, I believe that what happened is a disaster. What happened is pitiful on numerous levels. In any case, to state it's anybody individual's deficiency isn't right."