Redskins Safety Sean Taylor Dies

Excerpt Bloomberg News report "Redskins' Taylor Dies After Being Shot in His Home ":

 Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died after he was shot in the leg during a possible burglary at his Florida home. He was 24.

Taylor was found bleeding from a gunshot wound when officers responded to a call at his Palmetto Bay home just before 2 a.m. yesterday, Miami-Dade Police said.

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Redskins coach Joe Gibbs said Taylor missed a team meeting after a separate attempted break-in at his house on Nov. 18. The fifth overall pick in the 2004 National Football League draft, Taylor didn't travel to Tampa Bay for the Redskins' Nov. 25 game because of a knee injury that kept him out the past two weeks.

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His father, Pedro W. Taylor, is the chief of the Florida City Police Department, a municipality in southern Miami-Dade County about 15 miles southwest of Taylor’s home.

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Taylor’s corn-yellow house sits behind a six-foot white wall.

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The incident was apparently the second time in nine days that someone broke into Taylor’s house.

According to a Miami-Dade Police report, an intruder broke through a front window Nov. 17, entered several rooms, rifled through drawers and a safe, and left a kitchen knife on a bed. No one else was in the house at the time, Taylor told the police.

In an interview on CNN this morning, Sharpstein said he believed that the earlier intrusion was not an isolated incident, and that the shooter who entered the home on Monday night may have been expecting Taylor to be out of town with his team.

“It is a high probability that it was the same people or some related people that returned,” he said. “I don’t think they expected to see him there. He’s a football player. He was home really on an injury to see doctors. No one expected him there. I think he was surprised, or they were surprised to see him there.”

Investigators are also apparently investigating whether there is any relation between these break-ins and a dispute two years ago between Taylor and some men in a depressed neighborhood near his home, Sharpstein said.

In June 2005, Taylor was arrested and charged with felony assault and battery after the authorities said he pointed a gun at three men outside a house in West Perrine and accused them of stealing two all-terrain vehicles from him.

Witnesses told the police that Taylor, accompanied by several people, assaulted one of the men and made death threats before driving off. Minutes later, a group of men drove by Taylor’s parked S.U.V. and sprayed it with bullets from an AK-47 and a pistol. Taylor’s vehicle was empty at the time, and the gunmen were never identified or arrested.

Prosecutors negotiated a plea deal with Taylor and agreed to drop the felony charges. He was sentenced to 18 months of probation and pledged to donate time and money to various charities and schools in southern Florida.

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