{"id":957048,"date":"2026-07-27T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/957048\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:00:23","slug":"chiefs-oc-eric-bieniemys-son-arrested-in-connection-to-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/957048\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy’s son arrested in connection to shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The son of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy<\/a> has been arrested under suspicion of shooting a woman who is reportedly his mother in Virginia on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

The victim was not identified by name in a Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office news release but has been reported by multiple media outlets to be Mia Bieniemy, wife of the Chiefs coordinator and mother of their two adult sons. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds and has been hospitalized for treatment of serious injuries but is said to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Elijah Zion Bieniemy, 27, was arrested under suspicion of malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and discharge of a firearm inside of a dwelling, the sheriff\u2019s office said Monday. He is being held without bond at the county\u2019s adult detention center.<\/p>\n

\"Elijah <\/p>\n

This booking photo Elijah Zion Bieniemy was released July 27 by the Loudoun County, Va., Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

(Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office Via Associated Press)<\/p>\n

According to the sheriff\u2019s office, deputies responded to a report of a shooting at around 7:32 p.m. on Sunday. Public records show that Eric, Mia and Elijah Bieniemy currently reside at a house with an address on the block where the incident allegedly occurred. <\/p>\n

Eric Bieniemy, who was the associate head coach and offensive coordinator<\/a> at UCLA<\/a> in 2024, was with the Chiefs for the second day of training camp in St. Joseph, Mo., earlier Sunday but was not present for Monday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club is aware of the incident involving Eric Bieniemy\u2019s family,\u201d the Chiefs said in a statement. \u201cOut of respect for their privacy, we won\u2019t have a comment at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has been arrested under suspicion of shooting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[126161,346,126162,3836,126164,30895,7,11382,118,110,2438,2437,126163,5434,14994,6,6662,126165,9687,7252,4165,17389],"class_list":["post-957048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-chief-oc-eric-bieniemy","tag-chiefs","tag-chiefs-coordinator","tag-connection","tag-elijah-zion-bieniemy","tag-firearm","tag-football","tag-incident","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascitychiefs","tag-mia-bieniemy","tag-monday","tag-mother","tag-nfl","tag-office","tag-public-record","tag-sheriff","tag-shooting","tag-son","tag-sunday-night"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116993250338833854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957048","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=957048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}