A year-to-date after three Kansas City Chiefs followers have been final seen alive, it’s nonetheless unclear why they died of their buddy’s snowy yard — and authorities haven’t handed down any felony expenses of their deaths.
Clayton McGeeney, 37; Ricky Johnson, 38; and David Harrington, 36, visited their longtime buddy Jordan Willis’ residence in Kansas City on Jan. 7, 2024 to observe the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers.
Two days later, the three males have been discovered useless on Willis’ property by McGeeney’s fiancée. Willis could not be reached by telephone and didn’t reply his door within the days afterward, in response to members of the family who looked for the three mates who by no means returned residence.
Although preliminary autopsy results shared with the media by members of the family point out that fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana have been of their techniques, the deceased males’s households have questioned Willis’ involvement in what occurred, with some threatening to file lawsuits.
In September, Willis’ legal professional John Picerno informed Fox News Digital that “expenses [will be] forthcoming within the subsequent few weeks,” based mostly on “inside conversations” with prosecutors.
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David Harrington, Clayton McGeeney and Ricky Johnson have been discovered useless exterior their buddy’s Kansas City residence on Jan. 9, 2024. (Ricky Johnson/Facebook)
“I can say with confidence that my shopper won’t be charged in that regard,” Picerno stated on the time. “My shopper won’t be charged in any method with having to do with the premature demise of his mates.”
When requested who would face felony expenses within the males’s deaths, Picerno replied, “The felony legal responsibility might be for a felony homicide cost if someone offered these younger males with medicine.”
But Picerno and attorneys for the lads’s members of the family have stated that there have been no developments since.
Fox News Digital beforehand reported {that a} fifth man was in Willis’ residence at Northwest 83rd Terrace on Jan. 7 — however that man informed Fox 4 that he left whereas the lads have been nonetheless watching the sport, and he confused that he was not the final individual to see them alive.
That fifth man’s attorney couldn’t be reached for remark by Fox News Digital.
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An exterior view of the house of Jordan Willis in Kansas City, Missouri on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (DWS for Fox News Digital)
Picerno stated in September that the size of the probe, which the Kansas City Police Department has repeatedly characterised as a demise investigation relatively than a murder investigation, is “undoubtedly out of the unusual.”
He additionally stated his shopper voluntarily handed over all his digital units to police early within the investigation, together with DNA samples.
“I do not know what prompted this investigation to go on for [more than] 9 months,” Picerno stated. “That can be a greater query answered by the prosecutors.”
“There is nothing to report or touch upon right now,” a consultant from the Platte County Prosecutor’s Office informed Fox News Digital. “It’s nonetheless an ongoing investigation. I assume when one thing is completed, [Platte County Prosecutor] Eric [Zahnd] shall be doing a press launch. We haven’t got a timeline to report, sadly.”
The Kansas City Police Department couldn’t be reached for remark at press time.
Family and mates of Clayton McGeeney, left, David Harrington, middle, and Ricky Johnson, proper, are clamoring for solutions after the three males inexplicably died in below-freezing temperatures exterior their buddy’s Kansas City residence. (Facebook)
Although he’s “assured” that his shopper will keep away from felony prosecution, Picerno stated in September that civil motion is probably going on his horizon. He stated he has been contacted by attorneys representing the lads’s households and famous that the statute of limitations on all these circumstances is 5 years in Missouri.
Jennifer Marquez, David Harrington’s mom, informed Fox News Digital that that is “the primary [she’s] heard” of motion within the case. Until she hears additional information from the prosecutor’s workplace, she stated she is going to “hold [herself] calm and never get any hopes up.”
“Of course I’m extraordinarily completely satisfied to listen to that there could also be one thing happening,” she stated on Tuesday.
“I’ve not been informed something,” she continued. “They simply haven’t relayed any data to us, the households, although, so I’ve nothing so far as data. We’ve not been getting the autopsies or any data like that. They don’t need us to have the ability to launch something that might harm the case, I assume.”
“Of course, I’d like to see folks held liable for this and I consider Jordan needs to be held accountable,” Marquez stated. “It was his residence, he had the celebration, and, .”
Willis, who moved out of his Kansas City residence and enrolled right into a rehabilitation program after his mates’ deaths, has had his “life modified eternally,” Picerno stated.
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HIV scientist Jordan Willis, 38, checked himself right into a rehab facility after his three mates have been discovered useless in his yard on Jan. 9, 2024. (GitHub)
“It’s an terrible factor when folks have already presumed you are responsible with out actual proof,” Picerno stated. “It’s a tricky row to hoe, and he is managing it as finest he can.”
A supply near the Willis household informed Fox News Digital that the 39-year-old Ph.D. holder and analysis scientist “nonetheless struggles with the aftermath of all of this.”
“[He] not solely misplaced good mates of his, however [had] many individuals activate him,” the supply stated.
“It affected each a part of his life, and he is doing the very best he can,” the supply continued. “He has been serving to along with his dad’s care this 12 months, and making an attempt to remain constructive.”
