Police are investigating allegations that the youthful brother of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes assaulted a waiter and the proprietor of an Overland Park restaurant final weekend.
In separate incidents, Jackson Mahomes, 22, allegedly shoved the 19-year-old male waiter greater than as soon as and later forcibly kissed the 40-year-old feminine proprietor of Aspens Restaurant and Lounge, 6995 W. 151st St.
Police have been evaluating the institution’s surveillance video recordings from final Saturday evening as a part of their investigation, restaurant proprietor Aspen Vaughn informed The Star.
Authorities wouldn’t launch a report of the incident, however supplied the next assertion in response to a request for details about the standing of the investigation:
“The Police Division is conscious of an incident that occurred on Feb. 25, 2023, at a enterprise close to 151st and Metcalf. The division continues to be investigating. Releasing any further data can be inappropriate at the moment. Anybody with data ought to contact the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.”
An legal professional for Jackson Mahomes supplied the next assertion:
“Jackson has accomplished nothing improper,” Brandan Davies mentioned. “Our investigation has revealed substantial proof refuting the claims of Jackson’s accuser together with the statements of a number of witnesses. We have now reached out to legislation enforcement to offer the fruit of our investigation in order that they might have a whole image of the matter.”
In an interview and a collection of followup texts with The Star, Aspen Vaughn recounted the occasions of final Saturday, which the waiter additionally backed up. She additionally supplied a video purportedly exhibiting Jackson Mahomes grabbing her by the throat and kissing her not less than twice in her workplace shortly after 10 p.m.
His advances have been unwelcome and stunning, she mentioned, and he or she believes he was intoxicated.
“He forcibly kissed me out of nowhere,” Vaughn mentioned, “and I’m telling him, pushing him off saying ‘what are you doing?’ after which he proceeded to do it two extra instances the place the final time I used to be pushing him off and I can see on the cameras that any individual was exterior the workplace door and I used to be yelling for them to return assist as a result of he’s large and big.”
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At 6 foot 6, Mahomes is greater than a foot taller than Vaughn, who’s 5 foot 4.
Mahomes is a frequent presence on social media as a so-called influencer via his Tik Tok and Instagram accounts. He’s typically seen on the sector earlier than Kansas Metropolis Chiefs video games and was on the stage alongside his brother at Union Station for the Tremendous Bowl victory celebration final month.
Vaughn mentioned Jackson Mahomes has additionally been a frequent visitor at her restaurant resulting from his friendship together with her step-daughter, who additionally works at Aspens. He had been in to see the step-daughter earlier that Saturday, she mentioned, and was nice.
In December, Vaughn posted on Fb a photograph of her and Jackson Mahomes sitting aspect by aspect and within the feedback part referred to him as “a superb child” and a superb pal of her daughter.
However he has been disruptive throughout a few of the greater than 10 instances he visited Aspens, she mentioned, and handled the employees poorly.
“I’d say one out of 4 instances he is available in, it’s not a superb expertise,” she mentioned.
Jackson Mahomes has are available in for a lot criticism in recent times for his generally dangerous habits on-line and in public, akin to when he poured water on Baltimore followers when the Chiefs misplaced to the Ravens in 2021.
Final Saturday evening he arrived with 5 pals round 9:30, in keeping with Vaughn and the waiter, who requested that his title not be publicized. The place was busy. About 80 individuals have been consuming dinner or on the bar.
Mahomes and his entourage went into the basement workplace, and denied the waiter entry when he tried to go inside to retrieve his water bottle, the waiter mentioned.
“I used to be going into our workplace downstairs the place the workers are within the worker space, and he’s downstairs for I don’t know what cause,” the waiter mentioned, “and I’m making an attempt to get to the workplace, and he’s like, pushing me out. …And he’s like, No, get out, get out.”
The group then went into the VIP room upstairs. When Vaughn smelled the odor of marijuana drifting from that room, “I put my head in there and mentioned, ‘hey, I can scent this, we have now a celebration of 40 proper out right here and this could’t happen within the restaurant.’”
Shortly after 10, Vaughn mentioned Mahomes requested to talk together with her privately concerning the shoving incident, and that’s when he allegedly grabbed her neck in that basement workplace with sufficient drive that it left a faint bruise that’s evident in {a photograph} she supplied The Star.
“I used to be in shock,” she mentioned. “It’s disgusting,” she mentioned she informed Mahomes. “Such as you’re a toddler and he was making an attempt to say ‘we must be an influence couple, and I’m like ‘clearly you’re out of your thoughts proper now.’”
Mahomes and his group left round 10:45, the waiter believes, when Vaughn’s boyfriend informed them to go and never come again. Police arrived shortly after that in response to a telephone name from the waiter’s father, who reported the shoving incident.
Vaughn turned over her surveillance gear to the police they usually put in a brief system for her as a substitute, she mentioned. She supplied a written assertion and the police assigned a case quantity, though no paperwork are on public file but.
The waiter has not filed expenses and isn’t positive whether or not he’ll, he mentioned. Vaughn mentioned the police informed her they deliberate to pursue her alleged sexual assault regardless.
“Even with out you desirous to press expenses, we’re going to proceed anyhow,” she mentioned the investigating officers informed her. “So it’s in your greatest curiosity to cooperate. So we’re like, OK, in fact we’re.”
She determined to publicize the case when she started to wonder if the police would observe via, given Mahomes’ excessive profile.
“I informed my lawyer all of this,” she mentioned, ”and he mentioned ‘why don’t you simply share your story earlier than another person does?’”