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Sean Taylor shot & in critical condition

Drew

Drew

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/26/AR2007112600794.html?hpid=topnews


Redskins' Taylor Victim of Shooting

By Amy Shipley, Debbi Wilgoren and Jason LaCanfora
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 26, 2007; 11:25 AM


MIAMI, Nov. 27 -- Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot at his Florida home early Monday morning and hospitalized in critical condition, according to police and a statement released by the team.

Detective Mario Rachid, of the Miami-Dade Police Department, said police received a call from someone at Taylor's Miami home at 1:40 a.m. and responded to the house to find the star football player shot.

Taylor, 24, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital.

In his fourth season with the Redskins, Taylor leads the team with five interceptions so far this season. He missed the past two games -- including Sunday's loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- after spraining his knee during a Nov. 11 loss to the Philadephia Eagles.

The son of the police chief in Florida City, Fla., just south of Miami, Taylor grew up in Florida and starred for the University of Miami's football team. Taylor was the fifth pick in the first round of the 2004 NFL draft. After leading the Redskins defense last season with 129 tackles, he was named to the Pro Bowl.

Taylor continues to live in Miami, in a palatial home in the Palmetto Bay section of the city.

He has had several previous run-ins with law enforcement.

Taylor pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault and battery charges in connection with a June, 2005 confrontation over an all-terrain vehicle he said had been stolen from him. He avoided jail time in that case by agreeing to serve 18 months probation, speak to 10 Miami-area schools and donate $1,000 to each of them.

In 2004, he was arrested in Fairfax County on suspicion of drunken driving. A judge later dismissed the charge, after viewing a videotape of the field sobriety test and seeing no basis for the arrest. Taylor was nevertheless convicted of refusing to take a breathalyzer test in that incident -- but that conviction was dismissed on appeal.

Taylor also has struggled with discipline issues as a member of the Redskins -- he was criticized for skipping off-season workouts against Coach Joe Gibbs's wishes in 2005 and fined by the National Football League in 2004 for refusing to attend a rookie symposium. In 2006, the league fined him $17,000 for spitting at Michael Pittman during a Redskins --Buccaneers game.
 
AtHomeInTheDahlbergDen said:
AG2 said:
Gang or drug related?
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woah, woah, woah... this has nothing to do with "thugball," right?
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They don't have any suspects still after two days so Swilly's little "thugball" comment is as for right now not true.
 
Interesting story Drew.

Confusing because others say...

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Police search for clues in shooting death of Sean Taylor

The Associated Press
Published: November 28, 2007

MIAMI: Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was shot to death in what police suspect was a random burglary, and there are no indications the NFL player was targeted or knew his assailant.

"There's nothing that indicates thus far that there's some kind of involvement on the victim's part," said Robert Parker, director of the Miami-Dade County Police Department, adding it was "more like a random event."

He said evidence at Taylor's home indicates one or more intruders barged into the house early Monday in an attempted burglary. After a confrontation inside the home, Taylor was shot once in the upper leg and died early Tuesday after losing a tremendous amount of blood.

Police are still investigating, however, a possible link to a Nov. 17 break-in at Taylor's home, in which police said someone pried open a front window, rifled through drawers and left a kitchen knife on a bed.

"You found yourself drawn to him," said John McCloskey, one of Taylor's coaches at Gulliver. "He would charm you with his soft-spoken nature and his polite demeanor."

Speakers contrasted the Taylor they knew with the one often portrayed in the media by his lapses — a drunken driving charge that was dismissed, his firings of two agents, numerous fines and an episode two years ago when he was accused of brandishing a gun.

"It's sad that everybody thinks he's this aggressive and mouthy athlete," said Arriana Marion, who went to high school with Taylor. "He was really just a phenomenal person."
 
Cardinals’ Rolle: Taylor's death was no burglary
Childhood friend says player was ‘scared every time he was down in Miami’updated 4:23 p.m. MT, Wed., Nov. 28, 2007

TEMPE, Ariz. - Still in disbelief of his childhood friend’s shooting death, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Antrel Rolle vowed Wednesday to make sure Sean Taylor is remembered.

He added he did not believe the killing was part of a burglary gone sour, and that Taylor had many enemies on the streets of Miami.
“This was not the first incident,” Rolle said. “They’ve been targeting him for three years now.”
 
Dying Young, Black
The Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | Michael Wilbon





If you're hoping to read about the on-field exploits of Sean Taylor, or a retrospective of his time with the Washington Redskins, it would probably be better if you cast your eyes to a piece elsewhere in this newspaper.

Seriously, you should stop right here.

Because we're going to have a different conversation in this space -- about the violent and senseless nature of the act that took his life, about trying to change course when those around you might not embrace such a change, about dying young and black in America, about getting the hell out of Dodge if at all possible.

I wasn't surprised in the least when I heard the news Monday morning that Sean Taylor had been shot in his home by an intruder. Angry? Yes. Surprised? Not even a little.

It was only in June 2006 that Taylor, originally charged with a felony, pleaded no contest to assault and battery charges after brandishing a gun during a battle over who took his all-terrain vehicles in Florida. After that, an angry crew pulled up on Taylor and his boys and pumped at least 15 bullets into his sport-utility vehicle. So why would anybody be surprised? Had it been Shawn Springs, I would have been stunned. But not Sean Taylor.

It wasn't long after avoiding jail time and holding on to his football career that Taylor essentially said, "That's it, I'm out," to the world of glamorized violence he seemed comfortable negotiating earlier. Anybody you talk to, from Coach Joe Gibbs to Jeremy Shockey, his college teammate, will cite chapter and verse as to how Taylor was changing his life in obvious ways every day.


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