Three friends were found dead last year after watching a Chiefs game. Now, 2 men face charges in the case

For more than a year, mystery shrouded the case of three friends who were found dead outside a Kansas City home after watching a Chiefs football game on a below-freezing winter night. On Wednesday, two men were charged with killing them, prosecutors said.

For more than a year, mystery shrouded the case of three friends who were found dead outside a Kansas City home after watching a Chiefs football game on a below-freezing winter night. On Wednesday, two men were charged with killing them, prosecutors said. Clayton McGeeney, 36, Ricky Johnson, 38, and David Harrington, 37, were discovered dead outside the home of Jordan Willis in the Platte County portion of Kansas City around 10 p.m. on January 9, 2024, two days after the men watched the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Los Angeles Chargers. Willis and Ivory J. Carson are both charged with a single count of delivery of a controlled substance and three counts of involuntary manslaughter for “recklessly causing the deaths” of the three men, Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd said at a Wednesday news conference. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. All three men died of fentanyl and cocaine combined toxicity, a doctor with Forensic Medical of Kansas determined, according to Zahnd. “This case has received considerable attention from the media, and I think some people seem to believe that charges may never be brought in this case,” Zahnd said. “People may have doubted this investigation because it has spanned over a year.” Detectives obtained consent to search the home after the bodies were found and subsequently found two “plastic bags containing white powdery substances,” one of which contained cocaine after being tested, according to Zahnd. The probable cause statement alleges Willis “was determined to be the major contributor of DNA found on that bag.”