Former NBA player 'shot at police and then killed himself during a standoff'

Former UCLA basketball star Tyler Honeycutt. Photo / Getty Images

Former UCLA basketball star Tyler Honeycutt killed himself early Saturday morning at age 27, police reports say.

The former college standout and ex-NBA player was reportedly acting erratically when his mother called the police on Friday night.

He allegedly began shooting at responding officers, who returned fire, said the href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5929409/Former-UCLA-basketball-star-Tyler-Honeycutt-shot-police-shootout.html?ito=social-facebook" target="_blank">Daily Mail.

Honeycutt then barricaded himself inside the residence in Sherman Oaks.

A SWAT team entered the residence at around 3.30am and found him dead.

The 27-year-old from Sylmar, California, played for the UCLA Bruins from 2009 to 2011, when he was drafted in the second round by the Sacramento Kings.

He played for the Kings for two seasons before being traded to the Houston Rockets in February 2013.

After being waived by the Rockets, Honeycutt went to play in the Euroleagues with BC Khimki in Russia and Anadolu Efes in Turkey.

In 2018 he helped take BC Khimki to the Eurloleague Final Four.

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