Kansas Metropolis police confirmed there was no foul play within the deaths of three buddies discovered frozen of their buddy’s yard over a 12 months in the past — placing to relaxation boundless theories that dogged the weird tragedy.
The buddies — Ricky Johnson Jr., 38; David Harrington, 37; and Clayton McGeeney, 36 — every died of “fentanyl and cocaine toxicity,” officers revealed Wednesday, in keeping with the Kansas Metropolis Star.
Luggage of the harmful medication had been discovered inside 39-year-old Jordan Willis’s dwelling, the place the buddies had been hanging out to observe a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs soccer sport collectively on Jan. 7, 2024. Two days later their our bodies had been discovered frozen out again by involved buddies — whereas Willis had been inside and apparently failed to note them.
The trio’s household and buddies lengthy pressed for solutions about how they had been not noted within the chilly to die whereas Willis claimed to be utterly unaware of his friends’ our bodies proper exterior his door.
Lastly, their family members will get some solutions. Kansas Metropolis police have now concluded their investigation — saying on Wednesday that they had been bringing involuntary manslaughter expenses towards Willis and his alleged drug supplier, 42-year-old Ivory Carson.
Each males had been arrested Wednesday afternoon.
“This case is a tragic reminder of the hazards of road medication,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd mentioned Wednesday. “However make no mistake, the individuals who provide these medication can and will likely be held accountable when individuals overdose.”
Willis’ DNA was predominantly discovered on the cocaine bag, whereas the fentanyl bag had a major quantity of Carson’s, Zahnd mentioned.
Textual content messages between Carson and sufferer Harrington additionally indicated he had bought medication to the buddies, one thing he later fessed as much as.
Willis — an HIV researcher — claimed that he went to mattress early on the night time of the deaths and didn’t hear family and friends pounding on his doorways as a result of he mentioned he was sleeping with headphones on and a fan operating.
Along with lacking the sight of his three buddies frozen and lifeless in his yard, Willis managed to miss their vehicles parked out entrance till McGeeney’s fiancée broke down a door and compelled her manner inside.
These weird particulars — and Willis’ profession — sparked wild hypothesis that he had poisoned his buddies with some concoction of his personal making.
Such theories had been fanned by claims from McGeeney’s cousin, who advised NewsNation that Willis was generally known as “The Chemist” by his buddies as a result of he appreciated to whip up cocktails of medicine to assist them get excessive.
Sources near Willis outright refuted these tales, nonetheless, explaining that his job had nothing to do with lab science however was based mostly solely on computational information.
An lawyer for Willis says he was not the one who purchased the medication that led to his buddies’ overdose deaths.
“Jordan maintains that he’s not answerable for buying or supplying the medication that led to the deaths of his three buddies,” lawyer John Picerno advised the Kansas Metropolis Star after his shopper’s arrest. “We’re very a lot trying ahead to the day a jury will get to listen to all the proof on this case.”
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