The wife of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy was shot recently, with new details emerging.
The Kansas City Chiefs are currently dealing with a tragic incident in their coaching family, as offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy’s wife, Mia, was shot twice by their 27-year old son Elijah at their Virginia home while Eric Bieniemy was coaching the Chiefs offense.
Details are starting to emerge about the Elijah Bieniemy’s situation, and they’re alarming. According to a report from Adam Kilgore and Nicki Jhabvala of The Athletic, there were multiple calls to police, including one from a “a counselor at a remote college requesting a welfare check for a person who lived at the home whose description matched Elijah Bieniemy’s.”
A spokesperson for Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, which is where the Bieniemy is located in Virginia, couldn’t commen because it “remains an active criminal investigation."
The number of phone calls is news, as the reports about this before the incident weren’t detailed. The latest report recounts the incident, with Mia Bieniemy, 57, was shot at the family’s home in Ashburn, Va., on July 26 and critically wounded. Police arrested Elijah Bieniemy, 27, and charged him with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and discharge of a firearm inside a dwelling.
Mia Bieniemy has since improved enough to leave the ICU, and a judge granted a request for Elijah Bieniemy to undergo a mental health evaluation. According to his public defender, Elijah Bieniemy “appears to suffer from significant mental health issues” and “does not appear able to assist in his own defense at the present time.”
The latest report from The Athletic also recounts a call from the family address two days before the shooting in which a 27-year old man said “his parents are withholding his weapons and that he’s a certified UFC fighter so now he feels like he cannot defend himself.” The caller also “kept rambling on about also having his (CPR) license and what if he cannot help.”
The man went on to allegedly tell police that “his parents told him he must give them his firearms if he wants to keep living in the home — and that he could have them back when he needed them.” He added his parents “refuse to give (him) his firearms back when he tries to go to the range to use them.”
The report was classified by police as urgent but not life-threatening, and there’s also what the writers called “a heavily redacted incident report with no details regarding a suspicious circumstance at the Bieniemys’ address.”
That report was made on June 22, and another report from June 1 includes a request to check on the welfare of a 27-year old man living at Bieniemy’s address, with that both reports being heavily redacted.
After the June 1 incident, police determined that “no one had access to weapons.” The report concluded that “this incident does not require an urgent response.”
