Questions surrounding the deaths of Kansas City Chiefs fans David Harrington, Clayton McGeeney and Ricky Johnson may soon be answered.
According to FOX 4 Kansas City, the Kansas City Police Department received a toxicology report on three men who were found dead in the backyard of their friend Jordan Willis’ home on January 9th. The media reported that the toxicology report showed that there were “several” substances in their bodies.
TMZ also reported that toxicology results showed there were substances in the men’s bodies, citing sources.
In a statement Friday, Alayna Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the Kansas City Police Department, told PEOPLE that “there have been no additional details or reports about this case disclosed to any media outlet, nor are there any plans to do so at this time.”
“The case remains an ongoing death investigation,” she added. “Both KCPD detectives and the Platte County Prosecutor’s Office have been in contact with the families of the deceased men and remain in contact with them as the investigation continues.”
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PEOPLE has reached out to the medical examiner’s office for comment.
Gonzalez previously told PEOPLE that “this remains a death investigation and nothing more.” In her statement, she added: “We still have no evidence or indication of wrongdoing, no one is in police custody.”
The men visited Willis’ home on January 7 to watch the Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers. A fifth friend was also in the house but left around midnight while the others watched Danger! on TV.
Brother suspects 3 friends found dead in backyard after Chiefs Game had something ‘in their system’
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Clayton McGeeney, David Harrington and Ricky Johnson.
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McGeeney’s fiancé found the bodies of Harrington, McGeeney and Johnson two days later. The police department confirmed the bodies were found in the backyard of the home and said “there were no obvious signs of foul play observed at or near the crime scene.”
John Picerno, Willis’ attorney, told PEOPLE in a statement that Willis is “not aware of how his friends died” and is “anxiously awaiting the results of the autopsy and toxicology report.”
Johnson’s brother, Jonathan Price, previously told PEOPLE that he believes “something must have been in their bodies” that wasn’t alcohol.
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“If I had to hypothesize … that the three men died the way they did, something must have been in their system. Whether it was taken consciously or not, I wouldn’t answer that. But something was taken because the three they don’t freeze a grown man to death in the temperatures they were at that time with just alcohol,” he told PEOPLE.
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