Two men were accused on Wednesday of the death of three chief fans of Kansas City whose bodies were found in a backyard two days after they met to watch the last match of the regular season in 2024.
Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson are each accused of three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of delivery of a regulated substance in a case that received widespread attention on social media. Their bond is only set at $ 100,000 cash.
Speculation about what happened started after 38-year-old Ricky Johnson, 36-year-old Clayton McGeeny and 37-year-old David Harrington were found dead in Willis' Kansas City, Missouri, Garden on January 9, 2024, after McGeeney's bent went looking for him. A doctor with a forensic laboratory later determined that the combined toxicity of fentanyl and cocaine killed them, according to the likely cause of cause.
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Witnesses said that the friends used cocaine when they first met Harrington's house and then Willis' on January 7, 2024, to see the Chiefs De Los Angeles Chargers play. The witnesses said that Willis had a history of offering cocaine to his friends when they had little money and that he bought it from Carson, according to the likely cause.
But Willis's lawyer, John Picerno, said there is no evidence that Willis bought the drugs that his friends took before their death and noticed that they partyed all day. And he said Willis did not know that they were still in his back garden – or that they needed medical help – until the police appeared.
“It has been a very long year for Jordan,” said Picerno. “He has lost his job. He has lost his house. He has lost his friends. The audience points to him as someone who has essentially killed them. And nothing could be further from the truth.”
Willis told the police that he believed that at one point McGeeney, Harrington and Johnson got fentanyl that the game was played and that he thought they were leaving his house the next morning.
Weather data indicate that the low temperature that night was approximately 33 degrees (1 degrees Celsius).
Researchers interviewed Carson, who admitted cocaine to Johnson, Willis, Harrington and McGeeney before January 1, 2024, says the likely cause. No lawyer is mentioned for Carson in online judicial information.
In the weeks and months since the three dead, the case went viral on Tiktok and other social platforms for his real crime. And relatives of the three men have taken over their frustrations in media in Kansas City and wonder when there would be charges.
