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.”
Asked 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.
A 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.
This is basically what I thought it was - there really wasn’t any mystery here.
I feel sorry for the families.
It would have in some strange way been easier to digest the fact that their child was murdered than that their child killed themselves through their own narcotics abuse.