Kay isn’t charged with murder.
He is being charged was distributing the drugs that led to the Skaggs dying.
45-year-old Eric Prescott Kay, the former Angels communication director, was charged by federal authorities in Texas with conspiracy to distribute a mixture containing detectable amounts of fentanyl, according to a news release Friday from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
The 27-year-old Skaggs was found dead in a suburban Dallas hotel room on July 1, 2019, while the team was on the road playing the Texas Rangers.
A toxicology report later determined Skaggs died of an accidental overdose from a mix of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone.
When he was first interviewed by DEA agents, Kay denied knowing where Skaggs used drugs, prosecutors said.
However, according to the criminal complaint which was filed July 30 and unsealed Friday, text messages between Kay and Scaggs, along with other evidence, revealed that Kay had stopped by Skaggs’ hotel room late on the night before he died to deliver pills to him.
Kay was known to deal drugs to Skaggs and others, but the Angels released a statement saying they had no knowledge of it.
Flip the page for the statement and the text messages between Kay and Skaggs.