Former NBA player, UCLA MVP dies after shootout with police

By Ross Kelly July 7, 2018 at 8:13am

A former UCLA and NBA player barricaded himself inside a Los Angeles home on Friday night after firing a gun at police.

After a SWAT team entered the residence, they found the man dead at the scene.

According to multiple reports, the player is 27-year-old Tyler Honeycutt.

Per LAPD on scanner the barricaded suspect in #ShermanOaks is former UCLA basketball player Tyler Honeycutt https://t.co/LPvNBTdMZt

— noah (@noahnonymous) July 7, 2018

A former NBA player, reported to be Tyler Honeycutt, was killed in a shootout with cops in Sherman Oaks, California after barricading himself in an apartment. I'll have the story throughout the morning on @1010WINS. #1010WINS,

— Mitch Lebe (@TheMitcher) July 7, 2018

According to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, Honeycutt’s mother called police and told them her son was “acting erratically.”

When officers arrived, Honeycutt opened fire and the police returned fire. It is unknown if that gunfire killed Honeycutt, but police believed he was still alive based on text messages.

They had no other communication with Honeycutt, and at least 30 residents in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood were evacuated.

The Los Angeles Police Department said a crisis negotiation team was on site, but the man was dead when they entered the residence. The police investigation is ongoing.

UPDATE: SWAT entered the residence & located an unresponsive male. LAFD responded & pronounced the male dead at scene. Investigators from our Force Investigation Division are at scene conducting a thorough investigation and we will provide more details as they become available

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) July 7, 2018

Honeycutt was born and raised and Los Angeles and most recently played for BC Khimki in Russia in the 2017-18 season. He played in Turkey during the previous season, and EuroLeague Turkey acknowledged his death on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/TurkeyLega/status/1015578424851730433

Honeycutt had been playing overseas since being waived by the Houston Rockets in 2013. He played 24 games with the Sacramento Kings from 2011 to 2013 after being a second-round pick out of UCLA in the 2011 draft.

A former Pac-12 opponent, Solomon Hill of Arizona, remembered his friend on Twitter.

hurt by the news, glad no one else was injured, but ultimately sad to say, rest in peace to my basketball brother tyler honeycutt… pic.twitter.com/5jmXT472gB

— solomon hill (@solohill) July 7, 2018

Honeycutt is the second player from the 2011-12 Sacramento Kings team to have an incident with police in the last few weeks.

Former first-round pick J.J. Hickson was arrested on a charge of armed robbery with a knife after a home invasion in Georgia.

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