Britt Reid’s reduced sentence leaves young victim’s family ‘disgusted’

While Missouri governor Mike Parsons commuted the sentence of former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, the family of the 5-year-old girl who was injured by Reid in the accident while he was legally impaired was “disgusted” by the decision.

Statements put out by the family of Ariel Young and their lawyer questioned Parsons’ logic behind the decision. 

“The family is disgusted, I am disgusted, and I believe . . . that the majority of the people in the state of Missouri are disgusted by the governor’s actions,” lawyer Tom Porto told the Daily Beast. “If you drink and drive and you put a little girl in a coma… you should have to serve the entire sentence that a judge of this state gave you.”

Reid, the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, was sentenced in 2022 to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to a felony count of driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury.

Reid will be under strict house arrest until Oct. 31, 2025. 

“Reid had completed his alcohol abuse treatment program and has served more prison time than most individuals convicted of similar offenses,” Parson spokesman Johnathan Shiflett told the AP about the reasoning for the decision.

Reid crashed his Dodge Ram pickup truck into two vehicles on Interstate 435, injuring six people, including himself, just days before the Super Bowl in 2021. 

“How would the governor feel if this was his daughter? . . . It seems the laws don’t apply equally to the haves and have nots. The haves get favors. The have nots serve their sentence,” Felicia Miller, Ariel’s mother said in a statement. 

Reid had been an assistant coach for the Chiefs at the time and admitted to drinking in the team facility before the crash that occurred on Feb. 4, 2021. 

One of the victims was Young, who had been in a coma for nearly two weeks and stayed in the hospital for roughly two months.