{"id":23424,"date":"2025-03-06T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23424"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:48:15","slug":"two-men-charged-in-the-deaths-of-chiefs-fans-found-dead-in-friends-backyard-more-than-a-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23424","title":{"rendered":"Two men charged in the deaths of Chiefs fans found dead in friend’s backyard more than a year ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having initially gone round to a friend’s house to watch the Kansas City Chiefs final game of the season, three of the five friends missing – only to be discovered two days later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bodies of David Harrington, aged 37, 38-year-old Ricky Johnson and 36-year-old Clayton McGeeney, were all found in the backyard of a Kansas City\u00a0property<\/a>\u00a0that their friend Jordan Willis had rented, on January 9, 2024.<\/p>\n

Now, Willis and Ivory Carson have been charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter, as well as two counts of delivery of a controlled substance – with the charges holding a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Their bonds are set at $100,000 cash.<\/p>\n

The corpses of the trio were only discovered after McGeeney’s fianc\u00e9e called the\u00a0police<\/a>\u00a0and requested a welfare check be made.<\/p>\n

When the cops knocked on, it is understood that they informed Willis of his friends’ deaths – with him claiming to have been sleeping on the couch for almost two days following a heavy weekend.<\/p>\n

The friends had met up to watch the\u00a0Chiefs<\/a>\u00a0final game of the 2023\/24 season, which saw them beat the\u00a0LA<\/a>\u00a0Chargers at the SoFi Stadium by 13 – 12.<\/p>\n

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The three men were found dead in the backyard (OX4 News Kansas City)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Each of the bodies were sent away and police hoped a toxicology report would shed more light on their deaths.<\/p>\n

According to the probable cause statement, a\u00a0doctor<\/a>\u00a0in the lab had determined the trio had combined fentanyl and cocaine in their blood at the time of death.<\/p>\n

Speaking about what his client faces, Willis’ attorney John Picerno said per AP: \u201cIt has been a very, very long year for Jordan.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s lost his job. He\u2019s lost his home. He\u2019s lost his friends. The public are pointing at him as someone who essentially killed them. And nothing could be further from the truth.”<\/p>\n

When quizzed on where McGeeney, Harrington and Johnson had gotten the fentanyl from, Willis explained that he believed they had acquired it at some point on the Sunday (January 7, 2024), and that he assumed they had all left his home at around 4am the next morning.<\/p>\n

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The trio were found in January (FOX4 News Kansas City)<\/cite><\/div>\n

A witness said they observed a plate with around half an ounce of cocaine at the house, and said everyone present was using it, KCTV\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They claimed Willis was ‘the only person in the group who could find and purchase that amount of cocaine’.<\/p>\n

A probable cause document also stated Willis was a ‘major contributor’ to DNA on a bag of cocaine found at the scene, while Carson’s DNA was found on a bag of fentanyl.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, detectives interviewing Carson heard how he confessed to selling cocaine to the four friends but only before January 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

Picerno told the outlet: “We are surprised that Jordan was charged with the deaths of his three friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was contrary to what the prosecuting attorney\u2019s office told me several months ago. The probable cause statement submitted by the state is consistent with what Jordan stated happened.<\/p>\n

“Jordan maintains that he is not responsible for purchasing or supplying the drugs that led to the deaths of his three friends. We are very much looking forward to the day a jury gets to hear all of the evidence in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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