OBLIVIOUS TO DEATH
Surviving fan slept 2 days while 3 died
The football fan who hosted a party that ended with three of his friends dead at his Kansas City rental property was “asleep on the couch” for two days while their loved ones frantically tried to contact him, his lawyer said.
David Harrington, 37; Ricky Johnson, 38; and Clayton McGeeney, 36, had gathered Jan. 7 at a house rented by Jordan Willis to watch their favorite NFL team play their final game of the regular season.
The three visitors were found dead at the NW 83rd Terrace home two days later, after the fiancée of one of the victims broke into the home and found the bodies, according to a friend’s Facebook post.
“He was asleep. He was asleep on the couch. The last memory he has is of them leaving [out] the front door, he doesn’t know what happened, um, with them, until you know, when the police came Tuesday night to his house,” Willis’ lawyer, John Picerno, told The Post about the Missouri mystery.
He added that KC investigators had said there was no foul play and were not investigating his client in connection with the bizarre, inexplicable deaths.
‘No foul play’
“They’ve said that there is no foul play, they don’t suspect it, and it’s not treated as a homicide investigation,” the lawyer said.
“This case is 100% NOT being investigated as a homicide,” KC
Police Capt. Jake Becchina told Fox News Digital.
KC cops did not respond to a Post request for comment.
A pending toxicology report will shed more light on the incident, especially as the men were found outside while their cars and Willis’ warm house were just yards away.
“It was really cold. You know, they could have gone out to get fresh air, they could have gone out to smoke a cigarette,” Picerno speculated Tuesday.
“Maybe the bathroom was occupied, they could have gone out to go to the bathroom, after a whole day of watching football; it was late at night.”
KC temperatures on Jan. 7 and 8 mostly stayed in the low 30s, before plummeting into the teens on the afternoon of Jan. 9, according to Weather Underground.
Picerno insisted his client — who works as an HIV-vaccine development scientist — would have done anything in his power to come to the aid of Harrington, Johnson and McGeeney.
“They were his buddies . . . They hung out all the time, two of them he went to high school with,” Picerno said, adding Willis had bought them all tickets to the Chief ’s playoff game the following weekend against Miami.
“If he could of helped them he would have helped them if they needed help. He had no idea they were back there.”
When asked if there was a chance that the men had been doing drugs and suffered an overdose, Picerno did not rule it out.