The brother of one of the Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in a friend’s backyard said one of the men’s frozen bodies was found sitting in a lawn chair, adding that he knew it had been “from the beginning.” “It paints a picture that we didn’t have,” he says.
Ricky Johnson, 38 years old. Clayton McGeeney, 36 years old. and David Harrington, 37, were found dead on January 9 outside his friend Jordan Willis’ rented home after attending an NFL game party there two days earlier. was discovered. A fifth man at the party said he left the house around midnight, according to his lawyer, but Willis’ lawyer said he had no knowledge of what happened.
Kansas City police said in an interview with FOX News Digital that their deaths are “100% not being investigated as homicides,” and that Willis is not considered a suspect and is fully cooperating with the investigation. did.
On Monday, Ricky Johnson’s brother Jonathan Price provided further insight into their chaotic deaths in an interview with NewsNation.
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Family and friends of Clayton McGeeney (left), David Harrington (center), and Ricky Johnson speak after the three mysteriously died in the frigid temperatures outside their friend’s home in Kansas City. I’m looking for an answer. (Facebook)
“David [Harrington] “All three were found not lying flat, but in lawn chairs on the back porch. As a brother, I saw everything,” Price said.
The coroner has not yet determined the man’s cause of death, and a spokesperson for Midwest Frontier Forensics told Fox News Digital that the results of the man’s toxicology report will take six to eight weeks, but will not be complete. The autopsy report will not be made public. It will take another 10-12 weeks.
“It’s the same thing every day that we don’t have answers and we can’t really mourn for no reason,” Price said Monday. “I want to be more involved. My mom and Ricky’s father want to be more involved and not just getting answers from the investigation.
“I’m not saying there was a crime or there wasn’t a crime, but if you immediately suspect there was no crime, you should have a conversation and say something to your family so no one hears anything.” I should, but that’s not true.” It makes sense. ”
willis A native of Virginia, I graduated with a Ph.D. She earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physical biology from Vanderbilt University in 2014. Previously at Northwest, she studied chemistry and molecular biology at Missouri State University.
According to an interview Willis gave to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative website in 2022, he is a senior principal investigator at the IAVI Center for Neutralizing Antibodies in Kansas City.
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The three were found in Willis’ backyard two days after attending a game between the Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers. After several days of not being able to contact his fiancée or Willis, one of the men’s partners entered Willis’ property, found one of the men dead and called the police. .
Willis’ attorney, John Picerno, told Fox News Digital and other news outlets that his client worked from home and slept most of the time between the time the men were removed from the house and the body was discovered. He said he had no idea about this. The body remained on his property until police arrived at his home around 9pm on January 9th.
“I don’t care who you are or where you live. If it’s snowing outside, I look outside to see how bad it gets,” Price said of these claims. talked about. “It doesn’t matter if you work from home or not, you have to leave home at some point. From what I heard from his lawyer, I don’t know if he left home or not, because he At first, he said he left the house sporadically throughout the day, but then he left again.”At one point, he was home for 50 hours.” ”
Experts told Fox News Digital that drugs, including fentanyl analogs and synthetic substances such as K2, may have played a role in the man’s death.
“I’m not speculating about what my brother did in his past. I just know he was a good person,” Price said. “He loved his daughters to death. He absolutely had future plans to be their father for the rest of his life and was never going to jeopardize that.”
Parents of Chiefs fan killed in Kansas City believe the victim ‘saw something he shouldn’t have seen’
The backyard and porch of Jordan Willis’ home in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday, January 26, 2024. The bodies of three of Willis’ friends, Ricky Johnson, Clayton McGeeney, and David Harrington, were found in Willis’ backyard, one of them decomposed. He was found on his balcony on January 9, 2024, two days after attending a Kansas City Chiefs game party at his home. (DWS for Fox News Digital)
In an interview with NewsNation last week, Harrington’s mother, Jennifer Marquez, implored Willis to provide more information.
“I want Jordan to come forward and say I know this wasn’t supposed to happen, but this happened. I did this, or I saw this, look, we… Please talk to me,” she said.
Friends and family members of the three men allege they called and texted Willis many times before their bodies were found, and even knocked on his front door and called out to him outside.
Picerno denied those allegations, first telling Fox News Digital that he had only received one message on Facebook Messenger, then telling NewsNation that Willis only had received messages and that police had not received any messages. He said there were no outgoing messages to indicate he had seen them prior to his arrival.
“I think that’s why he didn’t reply to the text messages people sent him, and that’s why he waited too long to let anyone know what happened to the men. I think so,” Marquez said. “I’ve heard from some people that they kept emailing him. They went and knocked on doors, banged on doors… How could they keep missing emails and people… Can someone keep knocking on your door and not notice the texts and messages? That?”
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David Harrington (far left), Clayton McGeeney (second from right), and Ricky Johnson (right) in a friend’s backyard two days after gathering to watch a Kansas City Chiefs game. He was found dead. (Ricky Johnson on Facebook)
Johnson and Harrington’s parents previously told Fox News Digital that they believe Willis played an active role in their sons’ deaths by “drugging” them or “making something up.” He said he is doing so.
Meanwhile, a source close to Willis’ family told Fox News Digital that “a mad scientist’s plan is completely ridiculous” and that Willis is “devastated” by his friend’s death.
“Not only is the whole country accusing him of killing his friend, even though there are no detailed facts, no evidence, and no charges against him at this point, he has also lost three of his closest friends,” he said on condition of anonymity. a source told Fox Nation. Exclusive interview on Saturday.
“Due to the circumstances of these wild speculations and accusations, he was unable to say goodbye or go to the funeral.”
