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Posted on 11/30/2007 9:35:13 AM PST by khnyny
Miami-Dade detectives have detained at least three people in Lee County for questioning in the death of Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor. Investigators believe the young men learned of Taylor's house through someone who unwittingly set up the burglary by bragging about the football star's wealth.
The suspects include a teenager and two men in their 20s who hail from the Fort Myers area.
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NFL ping.
The geography here is interesting. Sean Taylor was shot in Miami-Dade County, which is the southeastern-most tip of the Florida peninsula. Lee County is home to Fort Myers, which is about 160 mile drive from Miami, on the Gulf of Mexico side of the state.
Talk about trying to hide.
(Coincidentally, I’m in Fort Myers right now going to college. Huh.)
I figured they’d get them. It just makes sense that somebody knew who did it and talked due to their sympathy for the local guy who made good, but died. So somebody DID snitch. Good.
I suppose if they thought he was playing football for the Redskins, he wouldn't be there during the season, and that might make it worth the long drive.
But I seriously doubt that they drove all that way just for a burglary. There will be more to the story, somehow.
As expected, we’re being told it was a random break-in by perps who didn’t realize Sean would be home on injury leave. As if anyone preparing to break into a pro football player’s home wouldn’t take a moment to check out his whereabouts. Yeah, sure. Can you say “Cover-up”?
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There is still something about this that does not pass the smell test. Why would a bunch of burglars enter a home a week before and leave a weapon cueing off the resident (Taylor) to enhance securtiy etc in response and then return a week later to rob again knowing they have cued the resident (Who in my opinion should have seriously enhanced their own security at this point.) off to danger. Odd.
Hmmmm.
The distance tells me it wasn’t a ‘burglary’....it also tells me this is a stretch by the PD (no pun intended).
We’ll see.
Hello? My sentiments exactly! Just too many details that don’t fit. Something else seems to be going on or the investigating detectives are the Keystone cops.
Thugs have been crossing the state for several years. I guess they figure they are less likely to get caught
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i’ll bet these three are amish.
Are you questioning the unquestionable heroism of the heroic Sean Taylor?
This whole thing stinks to the high heavens. I’m in the Washington area, and the media here are now savaging anyone who dares to say that Mr. Taylor might have had a shady past. Redskins are doing the same; to hear them talk, Sean should soon be up for sainthood. Methinks they protest too much. The cover-up is underway.
I’m questioning everything about this incident.
Hopefully people talked.
Taylor apparently had a safe at the home which the perps were unable to access the first time around. Perhaps the safe and its contents were the draw for the second burglary.
Detained & charged are 2 very different situations.
The idea that his house was broken into by burglars who didn't take anything, and then was broken into again just a week later by another random set of burglars is kind of laughable.
Taylor himself spoke about his not so great past.
First of all, it really is possible that one can change their life around for the better even Sean Taylor or Michael Vick. Lets hope for that.
Secondly, there really are some dumb burglars out there or there would not be so many in our prisons.
Let’s wait and see what the outcome is.
Well, pardon me for not reading every post thoroughly before adding my 2 cents.
Yep. Very few percentage of murders are done by total strangers. I figure drugs/gang affilitation etc
That “arrow” looks like a model rocket
For instance, to what level were the police investigating the first crime? Why did Taylor not hire armed security after such a obvious threat? If people got in his home once wouldn't he do all he could do protect if not himself, his family? These are just questions regarding the first robbery with the bloody knife left on the bed.
It is like watching a horror movie where you shake your head after each scene where the main characters do the opposite of what normal, mentally sound folks would do. It all just veers from the road even from the beginning.
To so quickly decide it is just a robbery itself is a bit suspect with the oddity of events. I don't want to read anymore into it then is there. It really may have been a bunch of idiots. However if that is true Taylor himself was not a good husband or father if this is the best he could do given a robbery the week before and bloody knife left on the bed.
A machete? Paleese. Hire security detail until you believe your family is no longer threatened. If he can't carry a gun hire others who can. He was not hurtin' too bad for money. If this is the story the headlines should read Idiocy All Around Kills Football Safety. (Safety--Ironic).
by the way was that his wife or girlfriend? I think girlfriend. With a child involved my above thoughts still apply.
Cover-up? Never underestimate the stupidity of criminals! That's why they are criminals in the first place, because they are usually too stupid to get real jobs and and function with logic and reason...............
In many cases, you are of course correct. But, I have also known some remarkably savvy criminals who have made a veritable fortune by misusing their considerable intelligence. In fact, used to work for one who made — and offshored — tens of millions of dollars. Also, if any kind of organized crime is involved, the perps can be frighteningly sharp.
One of the news stories referred to the girlfriend as his “fiancee.”
Story doesn’t add up based on the prior B&E but it seems that some cousin of Sean’s told other cousins Ft. Meyers.
That's the downside of having a visible safe. Crook sees the safe and may decide to wait for you to come home and show him what's inside.
I do not believe for a second that this was a random break in and killing. Sean had some enemies out there and they got him. For what reason I do not know.
I have to agree, this doesn’t pass the smell test.
Wasn’t there a break-in and knife left on his bed a few weeks ago?
If he really had enemies, than why did he not take steps to protect himself?
It seems to me, he didn’t really believe that anyone was really out there to get him or he would not have been there alone with his child and his child’s mother.
Not only that, but most burglars go for easier marks than a big isolated house that’s almost certainly protected by an alarm.
Who said nothing was taken.
Every room had been rummaged. Sean Taylor wasn’t there to report on what HAD been taken and the knife may not have been ‘carefully’ placed on the bed at all but left on it after attempts to pry open the safe.
As for all these attempts to slam the character of Taylor afterwards, by ALL (and I do mean ALL) accounts he had left whatever it was he had to leave behind. There is a very big difference between, “someone from his past killed him”
By the way, Taylor was damn near immediately on the ground and non-responsive after being shot. Why not deliver a killing blow if it was a ‘set up?’ This looks far more like a botched attempt, maybe even to GET Taylor while he was there but unprepared for him showing up with a huge blade in his hand and firing to cover their escape.
Phillip Buchannon, who I have not heard linked to any real activity, was tied up and threatened with death and he STRONGLY believes it was friends of his that set him up.
IF you are not familiar with the culture some face, unfortunately even friends that you don’t ‘know’ are into anything seriously criminal can betray you due to jealousy or resentment or you’re separation once you figure they’re not good for you.
Not at all. I’ve seen posts on this very forum that mentioned very high-priced homes being targeted for break-ins and worse, people being the victim of home invasions. One was either a former or current Att-General.
I’ve also seen posts on other boards that talked about break-ins in proximity to this area.
Also, when it comes to ‘rich houses,’ a known NFL star’s house is likely to have more and better of what a burglar would be looking for.
Wow, they’re getting bold these days.
Not a bloody knife, as far as I know but a knife.
The saddest thing is that if Taylor had done about a hundred other things, including taking everyone to DC and hiring a temporary security agency or having a shotgun, we wouldn’t be sitting here now.
He did close the storm shutters on his windows but because of a relative coming and going did not arm the alarm system.
Indeed.
What has been sad in this case is to hear the media paint a story (even black journalists) of how ‘unsurprised’ they were and how this alleged ‘past’ of Taylor’s had caught up with him, without even waiting for his body to turn cold.
He was in his home, sleeping with his girlfriend of 7 years (i’m sure there were ‘breaks’ in there, but that’s still far more impressive than most athletes) and his child and if he had not put his past behind him, one would think he would be armed with a gun and not a knife.
When JOE GIBBS says you’re going to every chapel service and every single one of your teammates says you’ve found a strong purpose in your life (not that he was regarded as ‘bad’ before) then I’m going to believe that.
Even the one lone incident in his past involved property stolen from him. OF course, the people whose word was being taken as gospel about the ‘brandishing’ a firearm are criminals themselves who were stopped with a STOLEN ATV (somehow eluded prosecution-—why might that be—to get the DA big name status for nailing a celeb? the same DA that LOST HIS JOB during that trial) later on.
It got so bad that ESPN (briefly, thankfully) said “even his Pro Bowl appearance was marred by his hit on a punter (running a fake punt.)”
When firing your agents and getting a DUI case (that was dismissed due to conduct of the officer) constitutes ‘thuggery’ I’d say people are reaching.
I’m not meaning to say that he didn’t have questionable associations in his past but there is a difference between the sad realization that someone wanted to hurt him for ‘leaving’ or for his ‘success’ and acting as if he deserved it.
This isn’t some drug dealer shot on the street in a turf war or during a bad deal.
He was in his house, minding his business.
As has been pointed out by more than a few, the reactions to what’s happened to athletes like Antoine Walker, Eddy Curry, Dunta Robinson (home invasions) and Paul Pierce (private party—stabbed outside the club) among many others demonstrates that because of SOME bad apples, any young black man is automatically ‘deserving’ of their fate. People actually blame Walker and others for having nice watches or cars—as if rich white people don’t have those too? Is their murder justified as well?
Exactly. I hope it didn’t come off as though I was buying into it myself. I’ve always been a fan of Sean Taylor’s, and was rather disgusted myself at the kneejerk blaming of the victim I heard shortly after the shooting.
Yeah. I had heard a bloody knife early on on Fox, but that was a while ago so apoligize if I either heard incorrectly or just incorrectly remembered. Still just the knife alone would scare the heck our of me and get me to act to protect myself and loved ones. Thanks for the correction.
I have been listen to “redskins radio- 730AM” and they are beginning to get a little creepy about this. They seemed to be obsessed about how all of this will affect the team on Sunday. I understand that people think like this, and it is human nature to do so, but to spend hour upon hours is a bit creepy to me.
Yup—that was me. It was AG Robert Shevin, who was the AG at the time—mid-1980s. He's now deceased by natural causes.
"...I’ve also seen posts on other boards that talked about break-ins in proximity to this area....
Miami-Dade County has home invasions every day. The number went up after the Mariel Boatlift of Cubans, and increased again with the influx of Haitians. (Who usually preyed on other Haitians, and used torture).
Miami-Dade County probably has at least 20 break-ins a day. The number has probably gone down. Once residents have seen what Liberal judges don't do with any caught offender (who gets a lesson in burglary capture-avoidance techniques), plus the additional insult of damage home done by the police armed with the black fingerprint powder that gets over EVERYTHING!
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