A doctor says it “makes sense” that the three Chiefs fans who died tragically in their friend’s backyard on a freezing Kansas City night were exposed to some kind of drug, contributing to their strange deaths.
“It’s one thing for someone to have a tragic snowstorm after leaving a bar. But it’s a completely different story for the three people who ended up dead sitting on someone’s back porch after a party,” said Dr. Caleb Alexander, an epidemiologist with Johns Hopkins University, told The Post.
“The fact that there are three individuals really increases the curiosity and the tragedy of this case and, I think, increases the possibility that something more than a modest amount of alcohol was at play here,” he added.
In the puzzling case, Clayton McGeeney, 36, David Harrington, 37, and Ricky Johnson, 38, were found dead and frozen solid in the backyard of their friend Jordan Willis on January 9 – two days after the group was supposed to leave after watching a Kansas City game Chiefs on January 7th.
Police found the body after McGeeney’s fiance requested a welfare check when he never returned home that Sunday and Willis failed to respond to inquiries and people knocked on his door.
David Harrington (second from left), Clayton McGeeney (second from right) and Ricky Johnson (right) with two unidentified Chiefs fans. Ricky Johnson / Facebook
When police arrived, Willis reportedly responded with a glass of wine in his hand and claimed he didn’t know his friends were dead in his yard.
Willis’ attorney, John Picerno, said his client had been sleeping near a loud fan and wearing noise-cancelling headphones for two days while his friend’s family tried to contact him and find them.
Willis has been cooperating with police since they became involved and they have said he is not a suspect, the death is not suspicious and there is no suspicion of foul play.
Dr. Caleb Alexander said it “makes sense” that Chiefs fans were exposed to some kind of drug. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Alexander, who specializes in drug use and safety, said the condition appears to be the result of a dangerous combination of drugs such as opioids and alcohol that can be “either intentionally or unintentionally” exposed.
“It certainly could be consistent with opioids, benzodiazepines, antihistamines, barbiturates, muscle relaxants,” he said, noting all he could do was speculate until the toxicology report came back.
“There are dozens of potential prescription drugs that when combined with alcohol can cause a level of sedation that will eventually lead to freezing,” Alexander said, listing common drugs like Xanax and Ativan, Valium, and carisoprodol as possible causes.
“Any of these with alcohol act synergistically with many prescription drugs to increase their potency, and their potential to cause sedation and other adverse effects,” he added.
“One of the many tragedies of the opioid epidemic is that too often people overdose and it can happen just as easily in groups as it does when people are solo,” Alexander said, pointing to recent tragedies like last week when musician Jose Vasquez died. fentanyl overdose with his wife and friends at their home in Los Angeles.
Illicit opioids like fentanyl could also be on the table in the Kansas City case.
“That could cause three individuals to lose consciousness very quickly and eventually succumb to the weather,” the doctor said, calling it “a very plausible scenario.”
However, he also added, “They don’t necessarily have to die from drugs … they might just freeze, freeze to death.”
Temperatures were in the 30s on January 7th and 8th.
Jordan Willis rental house in Kansas City. fox 4kc
If the three men had been outside in such weather, immobile for any length of time, Alexander said, they would have been in serious danger of death.
“When you’re just sitting there, you’re not generating any body heat… It’s so cold. Cold enough to die, so be it,” he said.
Investigators say they “100%” do not see the death as a homicide, although the family of one of the dead has made accusations that Willis – an HIV scientist with a background in laboratory work, according to a professional profile – poisoned his friends and let them die.
Willis’ attorney called the allegations “absurd,” and insisted there was never any allegation of animosity between the friends.
Willis was the tenant of the house where three of his friends were found dead after he slept. github
Asked if drugs might have been involved in the death, the lawyer told The Post on Tuesday, “There’s a chance for everything.”
The Kansas City Police Department is awaiting autopsy results and toxicology reports, which Alexander said will be key to solving the mystery.
“Toxicology here is mission critical,” he said.
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