Men Charged in Deaths of 3 Chiefs Fans Found in Yard

Witnesses reportedly connect the two suspects to cocaine
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 23, 2024 3:00 AM CST
Updated Mar 5, 2025 7:25 PM CST
3 Chiefs Fans Found Dead Outside Friend's Home in Strange Case
Fans cheer During an NFL wild-card playoff football game Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 in Kansas City, Mo.   (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
UPDATE Mar 5, 2025 7:25 PM CST

Two men were charged Wednesday in the deaths of three Kansas City Chiefs fans whose bodies were found in a backyard two days after they watched a game together in January 2024. Jordan Willis and Ivory Carson both face three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of delivery of a controlled substance, the AP reports. A doctor with a forensic lab found that the three friends were killed by the combined toxicity of fentanyl and cocaine, according to the probable cause statement. Witnesses said that Willis often offered cocaine to friends and that he bought it from Carson; they also said the three victims were using cocaine that day, the statement said.

Jan 23, 2024 3:00 AM CST

Family members of three men whose frozen bodies were found outside a friend's home in Kansas City earlier this month are crying foul on the friend's explanation that they froze to death. David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, went to the unnamed friend's home to watch the Kansas City Chiefs game on January 7, NewsNation reports. Loved ones became increasingly concerned over the next 50 hours as the men were not heard from, and on January 9, the fiancee of one of the men went to the house. When no one answered the door, she got in through the basement and found one body on the back porch. Police later discovered the other two bodies in the backyard, and said there were no obvious signs of foul play.

An attorney for the homeowner tells Fox 4 KC the man had no idea his friends were still outside his house or in need of help after the game ended and he went to bed. Earlier this month, the mother of one of the victims told Fox 4 KC that "nobody" believes the homeowner's story. A spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department says authorities are awaiting a cause of death from the medical examiner's office. "That would be the thing that would drive any additional investigative steps," he says. "There is no change in the preliminary investigative findings. There have not been any indications of foul play." At the most recent Chiefs game, it was so cold that 15 attendees were taken to area hospitals due to weather-related health concerns, ABC News reports. (More Kansas City stories.)

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