Jackson Mahomes.Photo:Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty
Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty
Kansas prosecutors dropped three felony charges for aggravated sexual battery againstJackson Mahomes, the younger brother of NFL starPatrick Mahomes, while he still faces a fourth pending charge for misdemeanor battery.
The restaurant has since closed in part because of negative publicity stemming from Jackson’s case, owner Aspen VaughntoldThe Kansas City Starlast year. Vaughn, 41, also told the newspaper that she’s received death threats and that the restaurant was vandalized since Jackson was charged with felony sexual battery last year.
The Associated Pressreportedthat prosecutors decided to drop the sexual battery charges against Jackson in a court hearing he appeared at Wednesday, however, because Vaughn refused to testify against him.
Jackson Mahomes.Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty
Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty
Jackson’s attorney Brandon Davies told PEOPLE in a statement that his client “has done nothing wrong.”
“We had full confidence that the truth of the matter would ultimately be revealed,” Davies added.
Vaughn told theKansas City Starin an interview recounting the incident last year that Jackson was friends with her stepdaughter, who was a restaurant employee. He and five friends showed up at the restaurant and made their way into the basement office, she said.
“He forcibly kissed me out of nowhere,” she told the newspaper.
“And I’m telling him, pushing him off, saying ‘What are you doing?’ and then he proceeded to do it two more times,” Vaughn recalled. “Where the last time I was pushing him off, and I can see on the cameras that somebody was outside the office door, and I was yelling for them to come help because he’s big and massive.”
TMZpublished surveillance videofrom the alleged incident last year, which appeared to show Jackson repeatedly grabbing Vaughn’s neck and kissing her as she looks to push him away. Moments prior, Jackson also allegedlyshoved a young male waiterout of the room, theKansas City Starreported.
The fourth battery charge Jackson still faces stems from him allegedly shoving the waiter multiple times.
Jackson Mahomes.Nick Wagner/The Kansas City Star via AP
Nick Wagner/The Kansas City Star via AP
Jackson has previously facedcondemnation from fansfor his behavior at games and on social media.
In 2021, Jackson was criticized for a video thatshowed him pouring water on a Baltimore Ravens fanafter the Ravens defeated the Chiefs. A month later, he received backlash online for filming a TikTok video that appeared to show himdancing on top of an on-field memorialto late Washington football player Sean Taylor.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.
source: people.com
