{"id":13303,"date":"2025-07-14T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=13303"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:08:22","slug":"nfl-legend-john-elway-wont-be-charged-in-fatal-golf-cart-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=13303","title":{"rendered":"NFL legend John Elway won’t be charged in fatal golf cart accident"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LA QUINTA, Calif. — <\/span>NFL Hall of Famer John Elway won’t be charged after his business partner Jeffrey Sperbeck was fatally injured falling out of his golf cart at a Southern California golf resort community last April, authorities said. <\/p>\n

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told KUSA-TV in Denver<\/a> on Friday that investigators found nothing criminal and ruled it a tragic accident.<\/p>\n

Sperbeck, Elway’s partner and former agent, died after suffering an injury when he tumbled out of a golf cart driven by the former quarterback on April 26 at The Madison Club in La Quinta, east of Los Angeles. Sperbeck was 62.<\/p>\n

Sperbeck\u2019s cause of death was \u201cblunt force trauma” and the manner of death was an accident that occurred when the \u201cpassenger fell from the golf cart,\u201d the county coroner\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve looked at video 100 times and there\u2019s no explanation as to why he fell off, he just fell off,\u2019\u2019 Bianco said.<\/p>\n

Elway didn’t immediately comment on the findings. He said in an April statement that he was devastated by the death of his close friend. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no words to truly express the profound sadness I feel with the sudden loss of someone who has meant so much to me,” Elway said at the time.<\/p>\n

Elway’s April statement did not address his presence at the scene.<\/p>\n

Sperbeck began managing Elway in 1990, when Elway was quarterback for the Denver Broncos. He represented more than 100 NFL players during a three-decade career as an agent and business adviser. <\/p>\n

He was best known as Elway\u2019s partner who helped manage the Hall of Famer\u2019s extensive off-field business empire, which included restaurants, car dealerships and a winery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA QUINTA, Calif. — NFL Hall of Famer John Elway won’t be charged after his business partner Jeffrey Sperbeck was fatally injured falling out of his golf cart at a Southern California golf resort community last April, authorities said. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told KUSA-TV in Denver on Friday that investigators found nothing criminal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}