The brother of one of three Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead in a friend’s backyard has demanded investigators tell grieving families how they died.
David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, were found dead in Jordan Willis’ backyard in Kansas City, Missouri, nearly three weeks ago.
Police have still not made any arrests and medical examiners have yet to reveal the cause of death, while toxicology reports are expected to take another five weeks.
But Johnson’s brother Jonathan Price said he is making discoveries of his own, including the fact that one of the men was found on the porch, away from the others.
Kansas City police have said there is no evidence of foul play, but Price has demanded they explain what they think happened.
“I’m not saying there was or wasn’t a crime, but if you immediately suspect there was no foul play, then you have to have a story, something to tell the families and make sure no one hears anything they don’t.” Correct. There’s no point,” he told Chris Cuomo on News Nation.
Ricky Johnson’s brother Jonathan Price has asked police to explain what they think caused the deaths of the three men, if it wasn’t foul play
David Harrington (second from left), Clayton McGeeney (second from right) and Ricky Johnson (right) are shown with two unidentified fellow Chiefs fans, neither of whom are believed to be involved in the mystery. Harrington, McGeeney and Johnson were found dead in the backyard of another man’s home on January 9
Willis told police the men froze to death in his backyard. Their loved ones have raised questions about the lack of coverage of their bodies, and the snow they say was not deep enough to submerge them
“It’s the same every day with the lack of answers and the inability to truly grieve for no reason.
‘I want to be more involved. My mother and Ricky’s father want to be more involved and we won’t just get answers from the investigation.’
Willis, 38, is an HIV researcher and protein scientist who lives and works at the house on NW 83rd Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri.
He is an accomplished scientist whose research on COVID and HIV has been praised in the medical community. In interviews, he described his two pit bull mixes — Sadie and Daisy — as the “light of his life.”
The men did not return home or contact their families after the Jan. 7 game between the Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers, and Willis did not contact anyone to say where they were or what had happened.
For two days, the victims’ families said they visited Willis’ home, calling him and sending him Facebook messages asking where they were. He didn’t respond.
Eventually, the fiancée of one of the men broke into the house through the basement and found the first body in the backyard.
She then called the police, who found Willis in his underwear, holding a wine glass, and found the two other bodies in the backyard.
Price criticized Willis’ explanation, saying his story kept changing.
“I don’t care who you are or where you live, when it snows outside, look outside to see how bad it gets.
“It doesn’t matter if you work from home, you have to leave at some point, and from his lawyer we don’t know if he left or not because he started saying he left the house sporadically throughout the day and then again. one where he was home for 50 hours.’
Jordan Willis, 38, says he has no idea how his friends died in his backyard or why they were outside
One of the bodies was reportedly found on the back porch of the property by the fiancée of one of the men, who broke in after not receiving a response from Willis.
Ricky Johnson, a father of three, was one of three men found dead
Clayton McGeeney, 36, was also found dead in the backyard
David Harrington was found dead on his friend’s property on January 9
‘I don’t speculate about what my brother did in the past, I just know he was a good man.
‘He loved his daughters dearly. He definitely had plans to be a father to them for the rest of their lives and he definitely didn’t want to jeopardize that.”
And he said he now knew that one of the dead men was in a different position than the others.
“As a brother, I look at everything,” he explained.
“David was found in a long chair on the back porch, instead of all three lying flat, which paints a picture we didn’t have from the beginning.”
Harrington’s mother, Jennifer Marquez, has issued an urgent plea to Willis, saying: “I know he’s scared, but he was there, he took part in what happened that night, he had to know and he’s the only one who still remembers what happened. .’
She told News Nation anchor Natasha Zouves: “I want Jordan to come forward and say you know this wasn’t intentional, but this is what happened. I did this or I saw this, you know, just tell us.”
Marquez believes Willis is “scared” and said: “I think that’s why he hasn’t responded to the text messages that people have been sending him and I think that’s why he waited too long to let him know what’s going on with the men happened.’
“I heard from several people that they kept texting him, you know, they were knocking on the door, they were banging on the door… how could you keep missing texts and people knocking on your door without texts or anything else to note? That.’
Willis has claimed through his attorney John Picerno that he did not see the messages and slept “much of the time” between his friends leaving and answering the door to police.
He claims he said goodbye to his friends – two of whom he had known since high school – and then “collapsed” on the couch.
A short time later he says he went upstairs to bed and left the doors unlocked. The three men, he says, then returned to the property and at some point went outside.
Picerno says he hasn’t heard the victims’ loved ones banging on his door because he sleeps with headphones and a fan on. He also claims he only saw their Facebook messages after the police showed up.
He does not know how the men died and says he never suggested they were “frozen” outside in cold weather, as had been reported in the days after their deaths.
A source close to Willis told Fox last week: “Not only is the entire country right now accusing him of murdering his friends without any factual details, evidence or charges, but he has also lost three close friends.
“He was unable to say goodbye or attend their funerals due to the circumstances of these wild speculations and accusations.
“No one seems willing to wait for the results of the toxicology report or other police facts from a case still under investigation to make these speculations.”
Addressing claims that the friends had taken drugs, Harrington’s mother said: ‘I know none of these men are drug addicts, there is speculation that they did this or that, something may have happened that night.
“I don’t know, but I want people to know that this is not their life and if anything was offered that night, I know none of them had the resources to provide it.
“And that’s one of the reasons why I think there’s a problem. They were all taking care of their families, had bills and didn’t have money for things like that.”
Harrington’s father Jon has previously responded to allegations that they had taken drugs.
“I’m aware they may have used substances that were questionable, but the idea was to get high and not die,” he said. “If they were supposed to be friends, why didn’t (Willis) come looking for them?”
He has previously said he believes the three victims “learned something” or “saw something they shouldn’t have seen” before their deaths.
The grieving father told Fox News Digital: ‘What else could it be? Perfectly healthy men don’t just disappear from the face of the earth.’
There was a fifth man at the viewing party, Alex Weamer-Lee.
He is a high school friend of the victims, but says he left at midnight after football ended and when everyone was still alive.