A former coach and family friend says one-time Sacramento Kings and UCLA basketball player Tyler Honeycutt was found dead after a standoff with Los Angeles police.

Bort Escoto, who coached Honeycutt at Sylmar High School, told the Los Angeles Times the player’s mother called him early on Saturday and said her son took his own life.

The Los Angeles Police Department says it responded Friday afternoon to a report of a man with a gun and during the initial encounter, the suspect fired a shot out of a residence and officers returned fire.

Crisis negotiators were called and a Swat team finally found an unresponsive man who was pronounced dead by paramedics.

Honeycutt had most recently been playing in Russia. Escoto said he Honeycutt had had trouble adjusting to living abroad. “It’s hard for an LA kid to go to Russia, not know the language or surroundings,” he told the LA Times. “He was basically having a hard time with the adjustment. I just kept telling him he needed to get out and meet people.”

Escoto paid tribute to Honeycutt as a person. “He was a fantastic kid,” Escoto said. “He was a great kid to be around. But he was having some problems.”

Honeycutt was 27.