FORT WORTH, Texas -- Tyler Skaggs' mother painted a portrait Wednesday of the late Los Angeles Angels pitcher as a loving son who first struggled with a Percocet "issue" in 2013.
Debbie Hetman appeared as a prosecution witness in the federal criminal case against former Angels communications director Eric Kay, providing emotional testimony on a day that otherwise was filled largely with dry technical details.
Hetman said she was angry that Kay was the last person to see her son alive and that "someone" could have saved him and didn't. There has been no evidence presented that Kay was indeed the last person to see Skaggs, or that anyone had a chance to revive him.