Charges filed in deaths of 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans whose bodies were found in friend's backyard

Two men were charged Wednesday successful the deaths of 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans whose bodies were recovered successful a backyard 2 days aft they got unneurotic to ticker the final game of the regular play successful 2024.

Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson are each charged with 3 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 2 counts of transportation of a controlled substance successful a lawsuit that gained wide attraction connected societal media. Their enslaved is acceptable astatine $100,000 currency only.

Speculation astir what happened started aft 38-year-old Ricky Johnson, 36-year-old Clayton McGeeney and 37-year-old David Harrington were recovered dormant successful Willis’ Kansas City, Missouri, gait connected Jan. 9, 2024, aft McGeeney’s fiancée went looking for him. A doc with a forensic laboratory aboriginal determined that the combined toxicity of fentanyl and cocaine killed them, according to the probable origin statement.

Witnesses said the friends were utilizing cocaine erstwhile they got unneurotic archetypal astatine Harrington’s location and past Willis’ connected Jan. 7, 2024, to ticker the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers. The witnesses said Willis had a past of offering cocaine to his friends erstwhile they were debased connected wealth and that helium bought it from Carson, according to the probable origin statement.

But Willis’ lawyer, John Picerno, said determination is nary grounds that Willis bought the drugs that his friends ingested earlier their deaths, noting they had been partying each day. And helium said Willis didn’t cognize that they were inactive successful his backyard — oregon that they needed aesculapian attraction — until constabulary showed up.

“It has been a very, precise agelong twelvemonth for Jordan," Picerno said. “He's mislaid his job. He's mislaid his home. He's mislaid his friends. The nationalist are pointing astatine him arsenic idiosyncratic who fundamentally killed them. And thing could beryllium further from the truth.”

Willis told constabulary that helium believed that McGeeney, Harrington and Johnson perchance got a clasp of immoderate fentanyl astatine immoderate constituent connected the Sunday the crippled was played and that helium thought they each near his location astir 4 a.m. the adjacent morning.

Weather records bespeak the debased somesthesia that nighttime was astir 33 degrees (1 grade Celsius).

Investigators interviewed Carson, who admitted to selling cocaine to Johnson, Willis, Harrington and McGeeney earlier Jan. 1, 2024, the probable origin connection says. No lawyer is listed for Carson successful online tribunal records.

In the weeks and months since the 3 deaths, the lawsuit went viral connected TikTok and different societal platforms for its true-crime overtones. And household members of the 3 men person taken their frustrations to Kansas City-area media, questioning erstwhile determination would beryllium charges.