Readers may remember the three Kansas City Chiefs fans that were found frozen to death outside the home of a friend following an extremely cold game back in January of 2024. Over a year later, police have just now filed charges in the case.
Two men, Jordan Willis and Ivory J. Carson, have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and drug distribution in connection with the deaths of those fans—Clayton McGeeney, Ricky Johnson, and David Harrington.
Willis was the “friend” who rented the home and who consistently told investigators he had no idea what happened.
The trio had gathered at Willis’s home to watch a Chiefs game, and their bodies weren’t discovered until two days later after McGeeney’s fiancée broke into the house searching for him.
Two men have been hit with criminal charges for their alleged roles in an ill-fated Kansas City Chiefs watch party that resulted in the death of three males.
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Charges Filed In Chiefs Fans Case
Autopsies revealed that all three Chiefs fans died from a combination of fentanyl and cocaine toxicity, with the drugs allegedly linked to Carson. Carson admitted to selling cocaine to the group.
Willis and Carson face charges following a nearly 14-month investigation by Kansas City police.
The charges include three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of delivering a controlled substance. Prosecutors emphasized the case is a warning about the dangers of street drugs.
“This case is a tragic reminder of the dangers of street drugs,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said at a news conference Wednesday. “But make no mistake, the people who supply those drugs can and will be held accountable when people overdose.”
Willis’s attorney maintains his client did not supply the fatal substances. It remains unclear how Willis managed to avoid the fentanyl-laced cocaine while all three friends took part.
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Some Sort Of Charges Were Always Inevitable
As we have maintained throughout this story, something didn’t seem right from the start. How did one of the friends in Willis have no idea that his three buddies wandered out into his backyard in frigid temperatures and didn’t come back?
For. Two. Days.
Absolutely none of it made sense. If they were outside in the cold and feeling a bit chilly, perhaps locked out of the home, why not go to somebody else’s house? Once the extremities start feeling the chill, going to a neighbor would have been pretty easy. There were options.
But these three men didn’t – or couldn’t – make those choices. Now, it seems clear, that is because of the fentanyl overdose.
Even more odd is the fact that they were not discovered for two days. Now, it’s one thing for family and friends to maybe initially assume the boys had too much to drink and crashed after the game, but it’s another to find out the owner of the rental didn’t notice three dead bodies in the yard because he had been sleeping for two days.
We’re not making that up. Willis initially tried to claim he didn’t know what happened because he fell asleep for over 48 hours.
“He was asleep. He was asleep on the couch. The last memory he has is of them leaving [out] the front door, he doesn’t know what happened, um, with them, until you know, when the police came Tuesday night to his house,” his lawyer told the New York Post.
Out the front door and ended up in the backyard? Sounds like somebody witnessed what had happened with the drugs, panicked, and this is the best they could come up with.
As of the latest reporting, Carson is already in custody, and Willis is expected to surrender. That is if he doesn’t fall asleep for three weeks.
Bounding Into Sports will keep you updated as events warrant.
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