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Joe Yates
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.
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 property that their friend Jordan Willis had rented, on January 9, 2024.
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.
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Their bonds are set at $100,000 cash.
The corpses of the trio were only discovered after McGeeney's fiancée called the police and requested a welfare check be made.
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.
The friends had met up to watch the Chiefs final game of the 2023/24 season, which saw them beat the LA Chargers at the SoFi Stadium by 13 - 12.
Each of the bodies were sent away and police hoped a toxicology report would shed more light on their deaths.
According to the probable cause statement, a doctor in the lab had determined the trio had combined fentanyl and cocaine in their blood at the time of death.
Speaking about what his client faces, Willis' attorney John Picerno said per AP: “It has been a very, very long year for Jordan.
"He’s lost his job. He’s lost his home. He’s lost his friends. The public are pointing at him as someone who essentially killed them. And nothing could be further from the truth."
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.
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 reports.
They claimed Willis was 'the only person in the group who could find and purchase that amount of cocaine'.
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.
Meanwhile, detectives interviewing Carson heard how he confessed to selling cocaine to the four friends but only before January 1, 2024.
Picerno told the outlet: "We are surprised that Jordan was charged with the deaths of his three friends.
“That was contrary to what the prosecuting attorney’s office told me several months ago. The probable cause statement submitted by the state is consistent with what Jordan stated happened.
"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.”