Two charged in Kansas City Chiefs fans' deaths 14 months after bodies found frozen in backyard

Two arrests person been made successful transportation with the deaths of 3 Kansas City Chiefs fans who were recovered dead, frozen successful their friend's snowy Kansas City backyard aft an NFL ticker enactment implicit a twelvemonth later. 

"After an probe of astir 14 months, 2 suspects are present facing felony charges successful Platte County, including involuntary manslaughter, related to the deaths of 3 Chiefs fans successful January of 2024," the Kansas City Missouri Police Department said during a property league connected Wednesday. 

Jordan Willis and Ivory J. Carson person been charged with 3 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 2 counts of transportation of a controlled substance but 35 grams oregon less of marijuana oregon synthetic cannabinoid, according to tribunal records obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Court records bespeak that Carson, who went by "Blade Brown", supplied and sold cocaine to Willis and the victims, and that his DNA was recovered connected a container of fentanyl.

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Clayton McGeeney, Ricky Johnson and David Harrington (Fox News Digital)

"KCPD detectives ne'er stopped moving connected the case, waiting for each the facts to travel in. Reaching this constituent is simply a testament to their dedication to delivering justness for the victims and their loved ones," Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said.

Willis is the longtime person of Clayton McGeeney, 37; Ricky Johnson, 38; and David Harrington, 36, who were visiting his location successful Kansas City, Missouri, connected Jan. 7, 2024 to ticker the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers.

Two days later, the 3 men were recovered dormant connected Willis' spot by McGeeney's fiancée. Willis could not beryllium reached by telephone and did not reply his doorway successful the days afterward, according to household members who searched for the 3 friends who ne'er returned home.

However, Willis told constabulary helium had nary thought immoderate of his friends were dormant extracurricular and that helium hadn’t heard from immoderate of their friends oregon household members. 

Although preliminary autopsy results shared with the media by household members bespeak that fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana were successful their systems, the deceased men's families person questioned Willis' engagement successful what happened, with immoderate threatening to record lawsuits.

Willis' lawyer John Picerno antecedently told Fox News Digital that "charges [will be] forthcoming successful the adjacent fewer weeks," based connected "internal conversations" with prosecutors.

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Court records bespeak Carson supplied and sold cocaine to Willis and the victims, and that his DNA was recovered connected a container of fentanyl. (Platte County Missouri Sheriff's Office)

"I tin accidental with assurance that my lawsuit volition not beryllium charged successful that regard," Picerno said astatine the time. "My lawsuit volition not beryllium charged successful immoderate mode with having to bash with the untimely decease of his friends."

When asked who would look transgression charges successful the men's deaths, Picerno replied, "The transgression liability could beryllium for a felony execution complaint if idiosyncratic provided those young men with drugs."

Willis, who moved retired of his Kansas City location and enrolled into a rehabilitation programme aft his friends' deaths, has had his "life changed forever," Picerno antecedently said.

A root adjacent to the Willis household told Fox News Digital antecedently that the 39-year-old Ph.D. holder and probe idiosyncratic "still struggles with the aftermath of each of this."

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"[He] not lone mislaid bully friends of his, but [had] galore radical crook connected him," the root said. 

"It affected each portion of his life, and he's doing the champion helium can," the root continued. "He has been helping with his dad's attraction this year, and trying to enactment positive."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Willis' lawyer for comment. 

It was not instantly wide if Carson had retained a lawyer.