Now that toxicology reports show three Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in their friend’s snow-covered backyard last month had cocaine and fentanyl in their systems, the parents of one of them insist that “somebody gave them” the drugs.
Ricky Johnson, Clayton McGeeney, and David Harrington were found dead on January 9 outside the home of Jordan Willis, where they’d gone to watch a football game a day and a half earlier. Willis was questioned by police, who say they’ve so far seen no evidence of foul play and are waiting for final autopsy and other test results to determine their next steps.
But Jon and Theresa Harrington, parents of 37-year-old David Harrington, insist that someone needs to be charged with a crime.
“What matters is that he didn’t take that to die … It just means that there’s more to the story, there’s more to it than just that,” Theresa Harrington, mother of David Harrington, told NewsNation last week. “He didn’t take that to die. if he took the drugs on his own, he took them to get high.”
There has been no suggestion from anywhere that the men took the drugs to commit suicide nor that anyone forced the men to take them.
Jon Harrington told NewsNation that he didn’t know if his son brought the drugs to Willis’s house with him but his “thinking” is that the men “got them there.”
Representatives from the men’s families met last week with the county prosecutor’s office after weeks of angry accusations from them, including, from 36-year-old McGeeney’s girlfriend, that the men were absolutely “murdered,” as CrimeOnline reported.
“We keep getting answers that [police] are still investigating, so, there’s something there that they’re saying ‘maybe that’s not right,’” Theresa Harrington told NewsNation.
She said her son “wasn’t a drug addict or anything like that,” adding that “peer pressure” probably led him to take the drugs.
The preliminary toxicology tests showed traces of fentanyl, cocaine, and THC in the men’s systems, as CrimeOnline reported, but one family member told media that they had, not traces, but three times the lethal amount of fentanyl.
The men were found dead after the January 7 football party when they hadn’t been heard from and one of their fiancees broke into Willis’s house. She found a body outside and called police, who found the other bodies.
Willis reportedly told investigators that he believed the men had left and had not been outside or noticed their vehicles parked on the street. Shortly after, he moved out of the house and checked into rehab. A friend of his family said that the deaths were an “enormous, heartbreaking wake-up call.”
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[Featured image: David Harrington, Clayton McGeeney, and Ricky Johnson/Facebook]
