July 8 (UPI) — Tyler Honeycutt, who played basketball with UCLA, two NBA teams and overseas, died after barricading himself in a home and exchanging gunfire with Los Angeles police, authorities said.
SWAT officers responded to a call of a “man with a gun” about 5:10 p.m. Friday in Van Nuys, Calif.
Officers were communicating with the person in the house, when he fired a gun from inside the residence, Officer Tony Im, an LAPD spokesman, said in a report by the Los Angeles Times. Then, the officers returned fire and the man barricaded himself inside the home.
Officers believed Honeycutt, 27, was alive for several hours but when SWAT entered the home, they found the man unresponsive,
LAPD posted on Twitter that “it appears as if the suspect was not struck by any officer’s gunfire. The suspect appears to have sustained injuries consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” more here
Tick another hood rat off the list! Poor guy, the world just didn’t understand him because he was black. He decided to plead his case to a higher court.
You can take a player out of the hood but you can’t take the hood out of a player.
27 years old.Dam when I was
that age all I wanted to do
was build docks,piers and bridges
for 10 hours a day after which I
drank beer and chased pretty women.
What happened between the basketballing and the barricading? Islam?
I’d know who he was and be sorry that he’s gone, if the NBA hadn’t totally ceased to exist for me 10 years ago.
That LeBron James is worth more than 50¢ to anyone is a joke to me.
Wow. Who knew? Bazzabaw didn’t work out, degree in Vagender Studies turned out to be worthless, and now he has to get a job?
Maybe he was depressed ’cause the US wasn’t in the World Cup.