LOS ANGELES (AP) -NFL Hall of Famer John Elway will not be charged after his business partner Jeffrey Sperbeck was deadly injured from his golf cart in a Golf Resort community in South California last April, the authorities said Monday.
The Sheriff’s Office of the Riverside County said in a statement that researchers found nothing criminal and took a tragic accident.
“Consequently, no criminal charges will be submitted and the case will be documented as a chance death,” said the statement.
Sperbeck, the partner of Elway and former agent, died after an injury when he tumbled out of the golf cart driven by the former Quarterback on 26 April in the Madison Club in La Quinta, east of Los Angeles. Sperbeck was 62.
The cause of death of Sperbeck was “blunt strength trauma” and the way of death was an accident that took place when the “passenger fell out of the golf cart,” said the County Coroner report.
Elway did not comment on the findings. He said in a April statement that he had been destroyed by the death of his good friend.
“There are no words to really express the deep sorrow that I feel with the sudden loss of someone who has meant so much to me,” Elway said at the time.
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Elway’s statement in April did not tackle his presence on the spot.
Sperbeck started to manage Elway in 1990, when Elway was a quarterback for the Denver Broncos. He represented more than 100 NFL players during a career of three decades as agent and business adviser.
He was best known as the partner of Elway who helped manage the extensive Off-Field Business Empire of the Hall of Famer, including restaurants, car dealers and a winery.
