Confirmed Sean Taylor died early this morning ----Washington Redskins safety
I read about it on www.canesport.com . I am a Miami alumni, very sad news indeed. I hope they catch the murderer and give him swift justice. BT
I am surprised that they are still saying that they think it was a robbery. Someone broke into his house about a week prior, didn't steal anything, but left a knife on his bed. A week later someone breaks in again, doesn't steal anything, but kicks down his bedroom door and shoots him. Doesn't sound like much of a robbery to me. Taylor had been in some trouble over the past few years, so I wonder what the story behind the break ins is. No matter how you look at it, it is very sad, for a talented young man and father. RIP.
Will someone please take care of this waste of space? Horrible story, any idea on if they caught the guy who did it?
RIP. So he was 24? All yesterday I kept hearing 28yo, now I'm hearing 24. Damn this media and their lack of processing information properly.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/071127 The grim, horrible statistic wins again By Jemele Hill Page 2 (Archive | Contact) Updated: November 27, 2007, 11:40 AM ET Sean Taylor's death wasn't random. Maybe it was, but it wasn't. As the details emerge about the circumstances surrounding Taylor's death and Miami police hunt for the person responsible for claiming a vibrant life, this much already is true: The grim, horrible statistic won again. The leading cause of death for black men 15 to 24 is homicide. Taylor, who died from a gunshot wound early Tuesday in connection with an apparent robbery at his home, was 24. For the second time this year, an NFL player -- a young, black male -- has been murdered. Tragedy struck on the first day of 2007 when Darrent Williams, a Denver Broncos defensive back, was shot to death during a drive-by near a Denver nightclub after attending the birthday party for Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin. Denver police believe the shooting was linked to an altercation involving people who were with Williams that day. He wasn't involved in the altercation. Not that the bullet cared. He was 24 when he died, too. Their fame and wealth and playing for respected professional sports franchises didn't protect Williams and Taylor from an epidemic more lethal and closer than any war overseas, or any boogeyman terrorist we can unearth or create. Violence in America has laid a special claim on young, black men. When it made its way to Taylor's exclusive suburban Miami neighborhood, it didn't care that Taylor was engaged, the father of an 18-month-old daughter, the son of a police chief, a trusted teammate, the fifth overall pick in the 2004 draft, a hard-hitting safety who teammates nicknamed "Meast" (half-man, half-beast), a Pro Bowler, the Redskins' leading tackler last season. Or that a plaque honoring him for a generous, monetary donation rests in the cafeteria at his former high school, Gulliver Preparatory. "It sounded like things were getting better," a still-dazed Steve Howey, Taylor's high school coach, said early Tuesday morning. "To find out he'd died this morning, it just knocked the wind out of me." Howey, now the football coach and athletic director at St. John Neumann High School in Naples, Fla., won a state title with Taylor in 2000 -- the defensive back's senior year. This is the first football player he's ever lost to violence. "You hear about stuff like this from time to time," Howey said. "It's never been this close." Perhaps the most pertinent question is, how much closer does it have to get before we realize these unfortunate incidents are reflective of an enormous crisis that requires our immediate attention and action? A New York Times article reported the homicide rate among young, black men in America was seven times higher than any foreign country studied. That article was published in 1990. Why has nothing changed? Studies conducted in 2006 at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and other institutions concluded a black man is more than six times as likely to be murdered than a white man. This isn't to say Taylor was killed because he was black. This is to say that, because he was black, Taylor was more likely to be killed. The weight of that should be just as jarring as waking up and discovering an NFL player died from a gunshot wound. Please don't roll your eyes, release a frustrated breath, and trivialize this as "playing the race card." This is an American problem, not just a racial one. The fact that it has spilled into the sports world should indicate just how serious it is. As unfortunate as Taylor's death is, as representative as it is of a much more substantive issue, the saddest part is his passing may never be put in its proper perspective. Although study after study shows black men are more likely to be victims of crime, rarely are they given victim treatment, even when it seems to be obvious. By now, everyone is well aware of Taylor's past brushes with the law. They should be equally aware that those who knew him best thought he had distanced himself from those troubles; he was someone who had overcome the growing pains associated with being a professional athlete given unimaginable wealth at a young age. No matter what, Taylor's past doesn't in any way justify him meeting this tragic present. We should, of course, remember Taylor with a heavy heart. But it's even more important that we remember there are thousands just like him in communities within walking and easy driving distance. And they shouldn't have to wear a NFL uniform for us to care about them. Page 2 columnist Jemele Hill can be reached at [email protected].
The way he died is what I was trying to get at with the discussion we were having on another thread about the runner that tried to finish her race on a broken leg. Taylor died when a single bullet punctured his main femerol (sp?) artery, and he bled out. No matter how he died, it is sad and tragic.
I just buried a guy who died when he got shot in the left upper arm. What should have been a flesh wound ended up being an emoblized bullet to the heart which killed him rather quickly. Sometimes it's not where you get shot anatomically, but what happens to the bullet after it gets into you. This is a tragic case.
While it is sad that anyone should die so young, it is a case of karma. I beleive in his troubled past he either shot or shot at somebody during a drive by . This happened shortly after he was drafted. It seems likely that the person who murdrered him probably is somehow connected to all of this. As they say "live by the sword die by the sword" in this case it was a gun.
This article seems kind of nutty. If you keep your nose clean what does it matter what color your skin is? Maybe more role models who choose to stay on the path is in order.
Just typical media making sure the world knows there is different races. If the media would not constantly talk about it the world would be better off.
What are you talking about? He was the son of the chief of the Florida City Police dept. They lived in a pretty nice area and he went to Gulliver prep. He was not some inner city kid like you are imagining (like in Boyz in da hood). Maybe somebody had it in for him, but I doubt highly that it is related to a 'drive by in his troubled past.' Provide some info if you are in the know. BT
Exactly. As well as end all of these NAACP, Jessie Jackson, Sharpton, Quanell X, and so on. And now there is a Black College Football game. Give me a break.
So you believe that someone would break into a house twice in 8 days, murder someone and it was random? I'm not saying that this isn't sad or tragic, nor am I being disrespectful. As of now speculate is all anyone can do. But with the little bit of information we have it sounds like this wasn't just a random act of violence.
You don't know anything for sure at this point. What is safe to say is it was a homicide probably tied to his past.
^^^ Agreed and well said. I'm from South Florida and most of my friends are Canes fans so I've watched and heard alot about him. My brother is his age and played against him while he attended Gulliver Prep. so I was shocked and disappointed to hear about his demise.
