Sean Taylor - RIP UPDATED

I believe there were two shots fired, correct? The location in the wall where the 2nd shot entered in comparison to where Taylor was shot should give some indication whether the groin area was the bullseye. If the missed shot is reasonably close in proximity to a waist high shot, then the shooter may have been aiming for the family jewels.

If, on the other hand, the missed shot is nowhere near that location, say, over where Taylor's left shoulder would have been, that could indicate a panicked shooter pulling off a few rounds in the general direction of their pursuer.

The inside of that house holds a lot of clues, if not answers. The bullet locations, the condition of the interior (a house in some level of disarray that would indicate a burglary in progress or alternatively, in a relatively untouched mode).

Either the evidence in that house truly indicates this was a burglary in progress, or as headbutt stated, the police are playing it publicly that way while they attempt to smoke out those responsible by bluffing at them.

 

If any of you think it's remotely possible that this is a random home intrusion gone wrong, I have some oceanfront property to sell you on the sun.

God just didn't pass out enough common sense, huh?

 

Yes, but there's a difference between knowing what happened in your heart, and having rock-solid evidence. It never fails to amaze me on this board how often that difference gets blurred.

 

According to this storyfrom the Miami Herald, Taylor's neighborhood had seen an upswing in burglaries earlier this year. It's near the bottom of the story. They arrested some teens for at least some of them.

 

I'm floored by the amount of people who think this could have been an actual robbery.

Weren't the phone lines cut? Do they do that during robberies?

And JGM ... what's with ...

"if he were the kind of thug Mr. Taylor is being described as"
"presuming he's as bad a man as many are saying"

you are familiar with his spitting incident, right? and his car that someone put bullet holes in? and the remainder of his record?

 

Um, no.

 

Yep.

And if Mr. Taylor had gone out and shot someone, every one of those prior incidents would be germane to his treatment in the press. As it stands at this moment, however, since Mr. Taylor himself was murdered, and not one of us here has even an inkling of the circumstances under which that occurred, I prefer to keep an open mind.

And if Mr. Taylor was such a stone thug - why no gun in the house for him to defend himself with?

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-taylor27nov27,1,6908115.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Just before the shooting, Taylor was awakened by a noise in his living room, Sharpstein said. As the shooter or shooters approached Taylor's bedroom, he reached for a machete or other form of knife he keeps nearby in case of emergency, and two shots were fired, one striking his leg in the groin area.

Cerrato said Taylor's fiancee tried to call police from the house line, only to discover that the line had been cut. She had to use her cellphone to call 911, which delayed the response time.

"This was a deliberate attack," Cerrato said without elaborating.

 

That story is two days old. Wake up.

(It also says this at the top of the story: "He shows some improvement after long surgery and doctors fearing brain injury or death.")

 

Among the 4,0001 potential answers for why no gun: Maybe his boys rolled with them so he didn't have to. Or, he didn't have a license for one in Fla.

 

I don't see a correction ... did Cerrato recant this?

 

The phone lines weren't cut. They weren't working. God, you just keep digging the hole deeper and deeper.