Police are investigating allegations that the younger brother of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes assaulted a waiter and the owner of a restaurant in Overland Park over the weekend.
In separate incidents, 22-year-old Jackson Mahomes is said to have pushed the 19-year-old male waiter more than once and later pushed the 40-year-old female owner of Aspens Restaurant and Lounge, 6995 W. 151st St.
Police evaluated the surveillance video footage from last Saturday night as part of their investigation, restaurant owner Aspen Vaughn told The Star.
Authorities would not release a report of the incident, but issued the following statement in response to a request for information on the status of the investigation:
“Police are aware of an incident that occurred on February 25, 2023 at a business near 151st and Metcalf. The department is still investigating. Releasing additional information would be inappropriate at this time. Anyone with information should contact the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.”
An attorney for Jackson Mahomes made the following statement:
Jackson has done nothing wrong. Our investigation has produced substantial evidence refuting Jackson’s accuser’s allegations, including the statements of several witnesses. We have contacted the police to provide the results of our investigation so that they can get a full picture of the case.”
In an interview and series of follow-up texts with The Star, Aspen Vaughn talked about last Saturday’s events, which the waiter also backed. She also provided a video of Jackson Mahomes grabbing her by the throat and kissing her at least twice in her office shortly after 10 p.m.
His advances were unwelcome and shocking, she said, and she believes he was drunk.
“He kissed me violently out of the blue,” Vaughn said, “and I tell him, push him away and say ‘what are you doing?’ and then he did it two more times where the last time i pushed him off me and i can see on the cameras someone was standing outside the office door and i yelled for them to come help because he is big and huge.
At six feet tall, Mahomes is more than a foot taller than Vaughn, who is five foot seven.
Mahomes has a regular presence on social media as a so-called influencer through his Tik Tok and Instagram accounts. He can often be seen on the field for Kansas City Chiefs games and last month took the stage with his brother at Union Station for the Super Bowl victory celebration.
Vaughn said Jackson Mahomes is also a frequent guest at her restaurant because of his friendship with her stepdaughter, who also works at Aspens. He had been with the stepdaughter earlier that Saturday, she said, and was nice.
In December, Vaughn posted on Facebook a photo of her and Jackson Mahomes sitting next to each other and in the comments section called him “a good kid” and a good friend to her daughter.
But he was disruptive during some of the more than 10 times he visited Aspens, she said, and treated staff poorly.
“I would say one in four times he comes in, it’s not a good experience,” she said.
Jackson Mahomes has received a lot of criticism in recent years for his sometimes bad behavior online and in public, such as when he poured water on Baltimore fans when the Chiefs lost to the Ravens in 2021.
Last Saturday night, he arrived around 9:30 p.m. with five friends, according to Vaughn and the waiter, who asked that his name not be revealed. The place was busy. About 80 people were eating or at the bar.
Mahomes and his entourage entered the basement office and refused entry to the waiter when he tried to go inside to retrieve his water bottle, the waiter said.
“I went down to our office where the employees are in the staff area, and he is downstairs, because I don’t know what the reason is,” said the waiter, “and I try to come to the office, and he says, push me out …And he said: No, go away, go away.”
The group then went to the VIP area upstairs. When Vaughn smelled the smell of marijuana coming from that room, “I put my head in there and said, ‘Hey, I smell this. We’re having a party of 40 here and this can’t be happening in the restaurant.’ ”
Shortly after 10 a.m., Vaughn said Mahomes asked to talk to her privately about the shoving incident, and that’s when he reportedly grabbed her neck in that basement office so forcefully it left a faint bruise that was clearly visible. is in a photo she gave to The Star. .
“I was in shock,” she said. “It’s disgusting,” she told Mahomes. “Like you’re a kid and he was trying to say ‘we’re supposed to be a power couple, and I’m like ‘you’re obviously crazy right now.'”
Mahomes and his group left around 10:45 p.m., the waiter believes, when Vaughn’s friend told them to go and not come back. Police arrived shortly afterwards in response to a call from the waiter’s father, who reported the pushing incident.
Vaughn turned over her surveillance equipment to police, and they installed a temporary system for her in its place, she said. She made a written statement and the police assigned a case number, although there are no documents yet on the public file.
The waiter has not pressed charges and is not sure he will, he said. Vaughn said police told her they planned to pursue her alleged assault regardless.
“Even without you wanting to report, we will continue,” the investigating officers told her. “So it’s in your best interest to cooperate. So we’re like, okay, of course we are.
She decided to publicize the case when she began to question whether the police would proceed given Mahomes’ high profile.
“I told all this to my lawyer,” she said, “and he said ‘why don’t you just share your story before someone else does?'”
