Prosecutors dropped three sexual battery expenses towards Jackson Mahomes — TikTok influencer and brother of Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes — after the girl he allegedly forcibly kissed declined to testify.
Based on The Related Press, the costs have been dropped Wednesday, Jan. 3, after Johnson County Assistant DA Megan Ahsens filed a movement Tuesday. Jackson continues to be dealing with one rely of misdemeanor battery, to which he has pleaded not responsible.
Mahomes’ lawyer, Brandan Davies, mentioned the 23-year-old “has completed nothing unsuitable,” including, “We had full confidence that the reality of the matter would finally revealed.” The Johnson County DA’s workplace didn’t instantly return Rolling Stone’s request for remark.
Mahomes was arrested in Could 2023, although the alleged incident occurred on the Aspen’s Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, exterior Kansas Metropolis, in February. Mahomes was accused of attempting to forcibly kiss the restaurant proprietor, Aspen Vaughn, in addition to shoving a waiter. (The latter incident is the place the misdemeanor battery cost stems from.)
Whereas Vaughn spoke publicly concerning the alleged incident with the press and even shared surveillance footage of Mahomes allegedly attempting to kiss her with out her consent, she finally declined to function a witness. Prosecutors mentioned they obtained an affidavit from her lawyer saying she wouldn’t testify, whereas subpoenas have been additionally not despatched to her.
“Certainly, it has change into clear to the State, via conversations with a couple of individual involved along with her, that [Vaughn] is actively thwarting makes an attempt to serve her to keep away from coming to court docket,” the movement to dismiss learn.
Within the months following Mahomes’ arrest, Vaughn mentioned she confronted demise threats and harassment and claimed her restaurant was vandalized as nicely. She mentioned she believed somebody had lower the restaurant’s central air unit, broken its gasoline strains, and pulled a hearth alarm, which prompted water injury. She closed the restaurant in August, based on The Kansas Metropolis Star.
“I really feel like undoubtedly, because it’s occurred, my security is unquestionably in danger,” she informed The Star over the summer time. “I’m feeling attacked by folks I’ve by no means met. Why do victims not come ahead? It’s as a result of that is how they get handled.”
