Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons has decided to commute the sentence of former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, but the family of a 5-year-old girl who was injured in an accident while Reid was on legal disability are disappointed in the decision. I felt disgusted.”
A statement released by Ariel Young’s family and their attorney questioned Parsons’ logic behind the decision.
“My family is disgusted, I’m disgusted, and I believe…the vast majority of Missourians are disgusted by the governor’s actions,” attorney Tom Porto said. he said. told The Daily Beast. “If you drive drunk and put a girl in a coma…you have to fulfill the sentence handed down by a judge in this state.”
Reid, the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, was sentenced to three years in state prison in 2022 after pleading guilty to a felony charge of driving under the influence causing great bodily injury.
Mr. Reed will remain under strict house arrest until October 31, 2025.
“Reed has completed an alcohol abuse treatment program and has served longer in prison than most people convicted of similar crimes,” Parsonson’s spokesperson Jonathan Shifflett told The Associated Press about the reason for the decision. Ta.
Days before the 2021 Super Bowl, Reid crashed his Dodge Ram pickup truck into two vehicles on Interstate 435, injuring six people, including himself.
“What would you think if this was the governor’s daughter?” . . The law does not seem to apply equally to the haves and have-nots. Those who have it will benefit. Those who are not serving time are serving their sentences,” Ariel’s mother, Felicia Miller, said in her statement.
Reid, who was an assistant coach with the Chiefs at the time, admitted that he had been drinking at the team facility before the Feb. 4, 2021, crash.
One of the victims, Mr. Young, was in a coma for nearly two weeks and hospitalized for about two months.
