Mother of Chiefs Fan Says She's 'Surprised' as 2 Men are Charged with Manslaughter Over 1 Year After Death of Her Son

• The mother of a Kansas City Chiefs fan has said she’s looking for answers after two men were charged with manslaughter 14 months after her son was found dead alongside two of his friends
• “[I] still don’t know anything about how my son died or his last moments,” Theresa Harrington told the Daily Mail
• The three men were discovered deceased in the backyard of a friend’s rental home on Jan. 9, 2024, two days after heading there to watch a football game

The mother of a Kansas City Chiefs fan who was found dead alongside two friends after watching a football game is speaking out after two suspects were arrested and charged in the case.

On Wednesday, March 5, the Kansas City Missouri Police Department confirmed they had an update nearly 14 months after Ricky Johnson, David Harrington and Clayton McGeeney were found dead in the backyard of their friend Jordan Willis’ rental home on Jan. 9, 2024.

Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said during a press conference that two suspects, identified as Willis and Ivory Carson, had been charged with “distribution of a controlled substance and three counts of involuntary manslaughter.” 

Zahnd claimed that while searching the home after the incident, police found two plastic bags containing “white powdery substances.” After being tested by police, one of the bags came back positive for cocaine.

“The probable cause statement alleges that Mr. Willis was determined to be the major contributor of DNA found on that bag,” Zahnd said. “The other bag contained fentanyl and the probable cause statement alleges that Mr. Carson was determined to be the major contributor of DNA on that bag.”

The prosecutor said that a forensic exam determined that the three friends “all died of Fentanyl and cocaine combined toxicity.”

After the update was released, Harrington’s mother, Theresa, told the Daily Mail that she was still looking for answers.

She told the outlet she was “surprised” by the news, insisting, “I was thinking the investigation had ended.”

“They wouldn’t tell me anything,” she claimed of the police, adding, “The police always said they weren’t investigating it as a homicide,” according to the Daily Mail.

Theresa claimed police statements made it “easy to think they had already made up their mind and there wouldn’t be any further investigation.”

She told the outlet of her son’s death, “[I] still don’t know anything about how my son died or his last moments.”

Throughout the investigation early last year, police repeatedly said “no foul play” had been “observed or suspected.”

The Kansas City Missouri Police Department didn’t immediately respond when contacted by PEOPLE for comment regarding Theresa’s interview.

Johnson’s father, Rick, also responded to the charges, telling Fox 4 Kansas City, “I am happy with the Platte County Prosecutor’s Office and the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department for filling charges.”

“It’s been a long time. And I’ll be at every court date,” he insisted, according to the outlet.

Two days before Johnson, Harrington and McGeeney were found dead, they had been part of a group watching the Kansas City Chiefs-Los Angeles Chargers game at Willis’ rental home. 

McGeeney’s fiancée then discovered one of the men’s bodies on Willis’ back porch while she was searching for her partner. The remains of the two other men were then found in the backyard, the Kansas City Police Department told PEOPLE in a previous statement.

Following the deaths, Willis insisted he had nothing to do with the tragedy.

His lawyer, John Picerno, told PEOPLE in a statement on Jan. 23, 2024, that his client claimed that the last time he saw the men “was when they left his house, and he went to bed.” The attorney further claimed at the time that Willis was unaware that friends and family were trying to locate them “prior to being contacted by the police.”

In a statement shared with CBS affiliate KCTV on Wednesday, Picerno said Willis’ charges came as a surprise and were “contrary” to what prosecutors told him months ago.

“The probable cause statement submitted by the state is consistent with what Jordan stated happened,” Picerno said. “Jordan maintains that he is not responsible for purchasing or supplying the drugs that led to the deaths of his three friends. We are very much looking forward to the day a jury gets to hear all of the evidence in this case.”