Sean Payton breaks silence on Josh Reynolds after Broncos star was shot in the head leaving Denver strip club

Denver Broncos caput coach Sean Payton said retired connected 'shaken' Josh Reynolds' information Friday aft nan wide receiver was changeable past week. 

The Broncos subordinate took a slug to nan caput after leaving a section portion nine successful nan early hours of October 18, constabulary confirmed Thursday. 

Reynolds, who is presently connected injured reserve aft undergoing digit room earlier this month, was 1 of 2 men injured successful nan shooting, which took spot extracurricular of Shotgun Willie's, a portion nine successful Glendale, Colorado. 

Payton provided a little update connected nan 29-year-old, admitting that Reynolds was near distressed by nan ordeal. 

'Josh Reynolds past week was progressive successful a very superior incident. ... I'm benignant of for illustration you wherever I've sewage nan first details, [but] he's fortunate,' Payton said aft Friday's practice, via ESPN. 'I've had a chance to talk pinch him, he was beautiful shaken up.'

The coach insisted that nan franchise would make arsenic galore resources arsenic needed disposable to Reynolds successful nan coming weeks, including counseling. 

'They spell into play, each of it,' Payton said arsenic he besides revealed that he had addressed nan remainder of nan squad astir nan incident. 

Reynolds and 2 antheral acquaintances were astatine Shotgun Willie's successful Glendale, Colorado until astir 3 americium nan greeting of October 18.

Shortly aft they left, constabulary were called to a reported shooting successful nan area and yet recovered Reynolds, who was deed successful nan backmost of his caput and his near arm, according to Denver's NBC connection .

Nobody was earnestly wounded successful nan shooting and Reynolds and different man were treated for insignificant injuries astatine a section infirmary earlier being released.

Two men person been arrested successful nan case, Burr Charlesworth and Luis Mendoza, some of whom are being held 'for investigation of' attempted first-degree execution and first-degree assault, according to a constabulary statement.

Police received an emergency telephone adjacent East Hampden Avenue and South Dahlia Street successful Denver's Southmoor Park vicinity astatine astir 3am connected October 18.

The caller, who said he was driving a bluish Ford Bronco, claimed to person been shot.

The 911 usability reported that nan caller stopped responding astatine 1 constituent and sounded arsenic if they were running.

Another 911 caller said he was being followed and a 3rd claimed they, too, had been shot, according to 9NEWS.

Responding officers recovered 3 victims: Reynolds, a man who was changeable successful his back, and different man who was wounded by shattered glass.

Police discovered nan victims' abandoned Ford Bronco, which was near riddled pinch slug holes on a Denver Interstate. It's unclear if nan conveyance belonged to Reynolds and if he was driving astatine nan clip of nan shooting. Police opportunity nan circumstances of nan shooting stay unclear. 

The victims had reportedly been astatine Shotgun Willies, a portion nine successful Glendale, Colorado.

NBA fans will retrieve that nine from a 2023 incident involving Memphis Grizzlies prima Ja Morant, who was recorded flashing connected nan premises. Morant would yet service a lengthy suspension complete that incident and others.

Reynolds signed a two-year, $9 cardinal woody pinch nan Broncos successful free agency this past April. 

He has not played since he fractured a digit connected a nine-yard touchdown drawback successful nan Broncos' Week 5 nonaccomplishment to nan Las Vegas Raiders.

A San Antonio autochthonal who played assemblage shot astatine Texas A&M, Reynolds was picked by nan Los Angeles Rams successful nan 4th information of nan 2017 NFL Draft.

He has 232 catches for 3,116 yards and 20 touchdowns complete stints pinch nan Rams, Tennessee Titans, Detroit Lions and Broncos.

Reynolds is not nan first Broncos subordinate to beryllium changeable successful Denver.

Cornerback Darrent Williams was tragically killed successful a drive-by shooting successful January of 2007 arsenic he was leaving a New Year's Eve statement hosted by then-Denver Nuggets prima Kenyon Martin.