Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco stated it seems “nothing nefarious” occurred in the course of the golf cart incident that led to the dying of John Elway’s shut buddy and enterprise accomplice Jeff Sperbeck final weekend.
The sheriff stated his division’s investigation is almost full and might be completed as early as this weekend.
“Now we have not discovered something that may point out that that is something aside from a tragic accident,” Bianco stated in a telephone interview Friday night time.
Sperbeck fell from a shifting golf cart within the Madison Membership group of La Quinta on April 26 about 6:50 p.m. and hit his head. The 62-year-old San Clemente resident was pronounced lifeless at 1:10 a.m. April 30 at Desert Regional Medical Middle, in response to the Sheriff’s Workplace.
Sperbeck was standing within the again portion of the cart when he fell off, Bianco stated. The cart was designed for both two or 4 folks, in response to the sheriff, however there have been 5 folks—Sperbeck, Elway, their wives and an individual whose id Bianco didn’t know—driving on it on the time of the incident.
The sheriff declined to verify studies that Elway was driving the cart. He added that the driving force doesn’t seem like at fault and there’s no indication alcohol was an element.
“There doesn’t seem like any trigger aside from, for no matter motive, he fell off,” Bianco stated.
Elway stated in an announcement April 30 that he’s “completely devastated and heartbroken” by Sperbeck’s dying.
“There aren’t any phrases to really specific the profound disappointment I really feel with the sudden lack of somebody who has meant a lot to me,” Elway acknowledged. “Jeff will probably be deeply missed for the loyalty, knowledge, friendship and love he introduced into my life and the lives of so many others.”
In 30 years as an agent and enterprise advisor, Sperbeck represented greater than 100 NFL gamers, together with Elway beginning in 1990. The 2 males later based 7Cellars vineyard collectively and Sperbeck served because the chief government.
A soccer star at Granada Hills Excessive and Stanford, Elway performed 16 seasons for the Denver Broncos. He was the league MVP in 1987 and led the Broncos to back-to-back Tremendous Bowl championships (1997, 1998) and three different Tremendous Bowl appearances.
Later, because the staff’s normal supervisor and government vp of soccer operations, Elway helped the Broncos make two extra Tremendous Bowl appearances, together with a victory following the 2015 season.
He was a advisor to the Broncos when his contract expired in 2023.
