Chiefs president Mark Donovan said the organization called upon its “protocols and processes” after a bullet went through a glass window in Andy Reid’s office in May 2024.
“We called down to our experts very quickly, at all levels, regionally and nationally and we sat down and assessed the situation,” Donovan said. “We cooperated with the KCPD, went through the investigation, and we went back and said, “Here’s where we are, here’s the situation. Here’s what we determined happened.’
“What’s the next step? From a PR standpoint, from a communications standpoint, we made our decisions and we moved on.”
The process did not involve an announcement. The incident was revealed publicly by Star columnist Sam McDowell on Wednesday.
Sources confirmed to The Star that Reid was working alone in his practice facility office when a bullet fired from outside the building shot a hole through the window and blinds, lodging in a wall between his bathroom and the office’s entry door — about 15 feet from Reid’s desk.
No arrests have been made and Kansas City Police say their investigation is ongoing.
Donovan was asked if the incident will have an impact on the Chiefs’ impending decision about a future stadium site. The team is in the process of determining whether to renovate GEHA Field at Arrowhead — the practice facility is located across a parking lot from the stadium — or build a new stadium in Kansas or elsewhere in Missouri.
“You know, it really doesn’t,” Donovan said. “In any situation you have to be fully prepared no matter where you go.”
After some discussion, Donovan said, the Chiefs had decided not to make an immediate public announcement about the shooting incident.
“We sat with the experts on both the investigation side as well as the safety side and decided this was the right path to take,” Donovan said.
But with the Chiefs preparing to play their lone home preseason game on Friday, Donovan stressed the safety of attending a game.
“Tomorrow night there will be 70,000 people in that stadium,” he said. “Our job to keep them safe. Rest assured we invest everything we possibly can to make that happen.
“I’ll make this final point, every single year we’ve got to evolve, we have to enhance, we have to increase, we’ve got to spend to make sure we’re as safe as possible. And we’ve done that. “