John Elway won’t be charged within the April incident through which his longtime enterprise accomplice fell off a golf cart pushed by the Corridor of Fame quarterback and later died, a Denver tv station reported.
Jeff Sperbeck was 62 when he handed away in La Quinta, Calif.
Chad Bianco, the sheriff in Riverside County, Calif., instructed 9NEWS that the investigation confirmed the preliminary findings of an accident and that the reason for demise was blunt power trauma.
“We have talked to everybody concerned and we discovered nothing new,” he instructed the station. “There was nothing legal. It was what we have been saying all alongside that this was a tragic accident.”
An official announcement from the sheriff’s division is due quickly, in accordance with 9NEWS.
Elway, Sperbeck and their wives have been within the desert to attend the Stagecoach music pageant, TMZ reported in April.
Elway, 65, and Sperbeck based 7Cellars vineyard collectively in 2013. Sperbeck additionally was Elway’s longtime agent.
Sperbeck, licensed by the NFL, represented greater than 100 NFL gamers as an agent and enterprise adviser over a 30-year profession, in accordance with his bio on the vineyard’s web site.
“I’m completely devastated and heartbroken by the passing of my shut buddy, enterprise accomplice and agent Jeff Sperbeck,” Elway stated in an announcement after Sperbeck’s demise. “There are not any phrases to actually categorical the profound unhappiness I really feel with the sudden lack of somebody who has meant a lot to me.”
Elway performed for the Denver Broncos from 1983-98, profitable Tremendous Bowl championships in every of his remaining two seasons. He was inducted into the Corridor of Fame in 2004. He returned to the group as an government in 2011, working as the final supervisor by 2020 and as president of soccer operations in 2021.
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