Why is mysqli giving a "Commands out of sync" error?

I am trying to run the following.

<?php

$db = mysqli_connect("localhost","user","pw") or die("Database error");
mysqli_select_db($db, "database");

$agtid = $_POST['level'];

$sql = sprintf("call agent_hier(%d)", $agtid);

$result = mysqli_query($db, $sql) or exit(mysqli_error($db));

if ($result) {
    echo "<table border='1'>
        <tr><th>id</th>
        <th>name</th>
        <th>parent_id</th>
        <th>parent_name</th>
        <th>level</th>
        <th>email</th></tr>";

    while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) 
    {
        $aid = $row["id"];
        $sql2 = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE MEMNO = '$aid'";
        $result2 = mysqli_query($db,$sql2) or exit(mysqli_error($db));

            while ($newArray = mysqli_fetch_array($result2)) {
                $fname = $newArray['FNAME'];
                $lname = $newArray['LNAME'];
                $mi = $newArray['MI'];  
                $address = $newArray['ADDRESS'];    
                $city = $newArray['CITY'];  
                $state = $newArray['STATE'];    
                $zip = $newArray['ZIP'];
                            $kdate = $newArray['KDATE'];
                $date = abs(strtotime(date('m/d/Y')) - strtotime(date($kdate))) / (60 * 60 * 24);
            }

        echo sprintf("<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>",
            $row["id"],$row["name"],
            $row["parent_id"],$row["parent_name"],
            $row["level"],$row["email"]);
    }

    echo "</table>";
}

mysqli_free_result($result);
mysqli_close($db);

?>

If I remove lines from:

  $aid = $row["agent_id"];

to....

  $date = abs(strtotime(date('m/d/Y')) - strtotime(date($kdate))) / (60 * 60 * 24);
  }

everything will work fine. If not, I get the following error:

Commands out of sync; you can't run this command now

In researching, I think it could be due to multiple MySQLi queries run at the same time, in which using mysqli_multi_query but for all the samples and general data in the guide does not seem to be applicable.

Any ideas?