The Kansas City Chiefs fan whose three friends were found dead in his backyard has entered rehab, a friend claims.
Jordan Willis viewed the events of that night and the days that followed as a “huge, heartbreaking wake-up call,” a friend said.
The deaths of his friends made him realize he had an addiction problem and needed professional help, the insider told Fox News.
David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, were found dead in Willis’ backyard on January 9 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Police have not yet made any arrests and medical examiners have yet to reveal the cause of death. The results of toxicology reports are still pending.
An anonymous source close to the 38-year-old HIV scientist, Jordan Willis’ family has now revealed he is ‘devastated’ that he has not been able to say goodbye or attend his friend’s funeral
David Harrington (left), Clayton McGeeney (center) and Ricky Johnson (right) were all found dead on January 9
Detectives are searching the phones of the three men who were found dead almost 48 hours after the January 7 football party.
Willis, an HIV scientist, left his home within days of police knocking on his door to question him about the bodies, fearing retaliation, and has not been seen since.
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 arrived to find Willis in his underwear, holding a wine glass.
Families DailyMail.com spoke to said they could not dismiss drugs as a possible cause of death for all three men.
Expert theories include that the men ingested enough fentanyl, combined with alcohol, to pass out after leaving the house and freeze to death.
Willis claimed he had not left his house in two days and was sleeping with noise-canceling headphones that blocked out the sound of his friends’ family’s frantic knocking.
He viewed the events of that night and the days that followed as a “huge, heartbreaking wake-up call,” a friend said.
“After the shocking loss of three of his close friends under extremely tragic circumstances, Jordan recognized that he had an addiction problem,” they said Fox news.
“He immediately checked himself into rehab after leaving his house and putting his belongings away.”
Alex Weamer-Lee, who shortens his name to Lee, is the fan on the far left in the photo previously published by DailyMail.com, which shows the three dead men smiling broadly in their Kansas City Chiefs jerseys.
Lee (front right) with McGeeney (left) and Harrington (center back) are photographed with an unknown friend (center front)
Willis is said to be devastated that he has not been able to say goodbye or attend his friend’s funeral – and is concerned about suspicions that he caused their deaths.
“Not only is the entire country right now accusing him of killing his friends without any factual details, evidence or any charges, but he has also lost three close friends,” the same source previously said.
“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.”
They further claimed that Willis’ family only learned what happened after local news media contacted them.
The family did not know if Willis was among the fatalities.
They also disputed claims that the scientist told people his friends had frozen to death in his garden after police arrived at his home.
‘What was missing from that story was context. He never said his friends were frozen to death to anyone,” they added.
David Harrington was found dead on his friend’s property on January 9
Clayton McGeeney, 36, (left) and Ricky Johnson (right) were also found dead in the backyard
Loved ones of the dead men have raised questions about the lack of reporting on their bodies, and the snow they say was not deep enough to submerge them.
One of the bodies was 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.
The ‘fifth man’ in the case of three Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead outside a rental home was Alex Weamer-Lee, pictured left with his mother Julia and brother Greg
This revelation comes two days after Willis’ father made statements on his behalf on January 26.
“He would never do anything in a million years. These were all good friends of his, these were all people he went to school with and he took them to a Chiefs football game the day before,” he said.
Speak with The New York PostWillis’ father said he would “never in a million years” hurt his friends.
When pressed about inconsistencies in Willis’ story, particularly the fact that one of the bodies was not wearing a jacket when he apparently left his home despite the freezing January weather that night, he said:
“They could have gone there, it was freezing and cold that night. I don’t know how many cars they came in; there were three of them, and there were only two cars left on the street.
“They could have decided for some reason that they wanted to go back into his house.” People leave the house without a coat all the time, no matter how cold it is, so I can’t answer that statement.
“(Jordan) doesn’t know what happened to them, and he never saw them again the moment they walked to the front door and left his house.”
DailyMail.com has also been able to reveal the ‘fifth man’ in the group photo as Alex Weamer-Lee.
He is a high school friend of the victims whose bodies were discovered two days after the Jan. 7 celebration, but he says he left at midnight after football ended and when everyone was still alive.
Weamer-Lee, who shortens his name to Lee, says he saw them off at 2 a.m. before sleeping on the couch and spending the next two days in the house, thinking nothing of their cars still outside .
Lee, a 37-year-old flooring contractor, lives in a rental home in another part of the city. When DailyMail.com arrived to ask him questions about the fateful night, a man who answered the intercom claimed he was not there and could not talk about January 7.
The man added: “Alex is not here at the moment and he is not fielding media inquiries.”
The other two bodies were found in the backyard. Police initially said there was no foul play, but have yet to confirm the cause of death of the three men