Former UCLA basketball player Tyler Honeycutt’s mother told police that in the hours before he died last month he had been “sucking laughing gas for six months overseas and I think it scrambled his brain,” according to footage released Tuesday as part of a Los Angeles Police Department critical incident community briefing.
In her call to 911 on July 6, Liza Stazel said in the video that Honeycutt had been using nitrous oxide. She also said her son had not eaten or slept in several days, was hallucinating and had knocked the phone out of her hands when she tried to call for help.