LA QUINTA, Calif. — NFL Corridor of Famer John Elway will not be charged after his enterprise companion Jeffrey Sperbeck was fatally injured falling out of his golf cart at a Southern California golf resort neighborhood final April, authorities stated.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco informed KUSA-TV in Denver on Friday that investigators discovered nothing felony and dominated it a tragic accident.
Sperbeck, Elway’s companion and former agent, died after struggling an harm when he tumbled out of a golf cart pushed by the previous quarterback on April 26 at The Madison Membership in La Quinta, east of Los Angeles. Sperbeck was 62.
Sperbeck’s explanation for demise was “blunt power trauma” and the style of demise was an accident that occurred when the “passenger fell from the golf cart,” the county coroner’s report stated.
“I’ve checked out video 100 instances and there’s no rationalization as to why he fell off, he simply fell off,’’ Bianco stated.
Elway did not instantly touch upon the findings. He stated in an April assertion that he was devastated by the demise of his shut pal.
“There are not any phrases to actually specific the profound unhappiness I really feel with the sudden lack of somebody who has meant a lot to me,” Elway stated on the time.
Elway’s April assertion didn’t handle his presence on the scene.
Sperbeck started managing Elway in 1990, when Elway was quarterback for the Denver Broncos. He represented greater than 100 NFL gamers throughout a three-decade profession as an agent and enterprise adviser.
He was greatest often called Elway’s companion who helped handle the Corridor of Famer’s intensive off-field enterprise empire, which included eating places, automotive dealerships and a vineyard.
