A drug dealer is expected to be charged in the case of three Kansas City Chiefs fans who died in freezing conditions after taking fentanyl at a friend’s house earlier this year, according to a lawyer familiar with the case.
Clayton McGeeney, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and David Harrington, 36, were found dead outside their pal Jordan Willis’ Kansas City rental home on Jan. 9 — but prosecutors aren’t planning to hold Willis responsible, his attorney John Picerno told Fox Digital.
“I can say with confidence that my client will not be charged in that regard,” Picerno said. “My client will not be charged in any manner with having to do with the untimely death of his friends.”
On Jan. 9, 37-year-old Clayton McGeeney, 38-year-old Ricky Johnson and 36-year-old David Harrington were found dead on Jordan Willis’ Kansas City property. Ricky Johnson / FacebookAsked who will be charged, he said: “The criminal liability could be for a felony murder charge if somebody provided those young men with drugs.”
Picerno said someone would likely be arrested in “the next few weeks” based on “internal conversations” with prosecutors.
The football fans had been watching the Chiefs play the LA Chargers on Jan. 7 and were discovered dead by McGeeney’s fiancée, April Mahoney, two days later.
Although preliminary autopsy results shared with the media by family members indicate that fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana were in their systems, the deceased men’s families have maintained that Willis was involved in their deaths. LP MediaA deadly cocktail of fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana were found in their systems, according to preliminary autopsy results.
Willis was wearing underwear and holding a wine glass when police arrived. He claimed he’d been sleeping for nearly two days, and had no clue his friends were dead outside.
Relatives of the deceased men’s families have previously insisted that Willis was involved in their deaths, and threatened to file civil suits against him.
“I don’t know what caused this investigation to go on for nine months,” Picerno said. “That would be a better question answered by the prosecutors.” LP MediaBut Picerno said his client has been cooperating with investigators, and has voluntarily handed over all of his electronic devices along with DNA samples.
He said the length of the probe — which the Kansas City Police Department previously called a death investigation rather than a homicide investigation — is “definitely out of the ordinary.”
“I don’t know what caused this investigation to go on for nine months,” Picerno said.
A fifth man, who has not yet been identified, was also in the home on game day but has previously said he was not the last person to see the men alive.
The Platte County Prosecutor’s office could not be reached by Fox News Digital, nor could the Kansas City Police Department.
