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 group final April, authorities mentioned.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco instructed KUSA-TV in Denver that investigators discovered nothing legal 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.
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John Elway hoists the 1999 Lombardi Trophy. Denver Submit through Getty Photos
Sperbeck’s explanation for demise was “blunt drive trauma” and the way of demise was an accident that occurred when the “passenger fell from the golf cart,” the county coroner’s report mentioned.
“I’ve checked out video 100 occasions and there’s no clarification as to why he fell off, he simply fell off,’’ Bianco mentioned.
Elway did not instantly touch upon the findings. He mentioned 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 mentioned on the time.
Elway’s April assertion didn’t deal with 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 generally known as Elway’s companion who helped handle the Corridor of Famer’s intensive off-field enterprise empire, which included eating places, automobile dealerships and a vineyard.
