{"id":204107,"date":"2025-07-13T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/204107\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:37:13","slug":"john-elway-cleared-in-jeff-sperbeck-death-investigation-report-says-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/204107\/","title":{"rendered":"John Elway cleared in Jeff Sperbeck death investigation, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports agent Jeff Sperbeck\u2019s death after falling from a golf cart driven by longtime friend and business partner John Elway in a private California golf community in April did not include any criminal activity, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com\/article\/sports\/nfl\/denver-broncos\/mike-klis\/elway-officially-cleared-california-sheriff-says-sperbeck-investigation-concluded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reporting from 9News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco\u2019s previously told The Denver Post that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/05\/02\/john-elway-golf-cart-jeff-sperbeck-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sperbeck\u2019s death<\/a> \u201cappears to be a horrific accident,\u201d then he repeated those sentiments on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve talked to everyone involved and we found nothing new. There was nothing criminal, it was what we\u2019ve been saying all along, that this was a tragic accident,\u201d he told the station.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s officials plan to make a formal announcement about the investigation in the coming days, 9News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sperbeck was taken off of life support on April 30, four days after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/04\/30\/john-elway-golf-cart-accident-jeff-sperbeck-dead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fell from a golf cart<\/a> driven by the former Denver Broncos quarterback at The Madison Club.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office did not begin investigating the incident until days later, following a wave of media attention.<\/p>\n<p>Bianco told 9News he reviewed video of the fall \u201c100 times\u201d and could not find an explanation for why Sperbeck fell. Elway was articulate and responsive in a recording of the initial 911 call and was not slurring his words, the sheriff told 9News.<\/p>\n<p>The Riverside County Coroner\u2019s Office ruled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/05\/09\/jeff-sperbeck-death-accidental-john-elway-golf-cart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sperbeck\u2019s death an accident<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n<p>Bianco could not immediately be reached for comment Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: July 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports agent Jeff Sperbeck\u2019s death after falling from a golf cart driven by longtime friend and business partner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,564,231,258,2426,7,1331,929,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-204107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-front-range","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114846436593554964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}