Eric Bieniemy stated on Tuesday that his spouse Mia is “doing nice” and on the “highway to restoration” three weeks after she was shot on the couple’s Virginia residence.
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs offensive coordinator was assembly with reporters for the primary time since Mia Bienemy suffered gunshot wounds to her arm and chest on July 26.
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“It is one of many major the reason why I am again right here, due to her restoration,” Bieniemy stated. “She’s really a soldier. She’s a saint and it has been unimaginable to observe. However I do know I used to be driving her and a bunch of my relations loopy in the home, so she was like ‘you have got my blessing to depart.’ It was time to get again.”
The couple’s son, 27-year-old Elijah Bieniemy, was arrested on expenses of malicious wounding, use of a firearm in fee of a felony and discharge of a firearm inside a dwelling. In a court docket submitting, his lawyer stated he “seems to undergo from vital psychological well being points” and “doesn’t seem in a position to help in his personal protection at the moment.”
Bienemy, who had been at coaching camp when the information broke concerning the taking pictures, stated that when the scenario settled at residence he was in a position to watch a livestream of Chiefs practices to remain linked to the workforce.
“It was simply [about] hold ensuring I can sustain with what was happening,” Bienemy stated. “On high of that I did not wish to get away too far, however I simply needed to guarantee that I may stay focus and locked in after I may have a possibility to take action.”
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Bieniemy is in his first season again with the Chiefs. He was Kansas Metropolis’s OC from 2018-2022, serving to the workforce win Tremendous Bowl LIV and LVII.
“It feels good to be again,” Bienemy stated Tuesday. “Firstly, it is a possibility to get again in with the fellows, to observe them work that approach now we are able to all develop and get to studying one another. Clearly, we have a whole lot of new faces and we wish to proceed the developmental course of.
“But it surely feels good to be again as a result of whenever you’ve been on this surroundings it turns into your loved ones. That is your loved ones away from your loved ones. So it feels good to be on this surroundings.”
