3 Detained in Sean Taylor Homicide

MiamiHerald.com ^ | November 30, 2007 | Manny Garcia and David Ovalle

[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.

[Puppage]

Miami-Dade detectives have detained at least three people in Lee County for questioning in the death of Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor.

Detained & charged are 2 very different situations.

[jpl]

I agree. His father, who is a chief of police, is no doubt pulling every string he has available to him to keep as much of this sad story under wraps as possible, and I guess I can kind of understand why.

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.

[khnyny]

Detained & charged are 2 very different situations.

Yes, that's already been noted.

[Puppage]

and the media here are now savaging anyone who dares to say that Mr. Taylor might have had a shady past

Taylor himself spoke about his not so great past.

[tirednvirginia]

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.

[Puppage]

Yes, that's already been noted.

Well, pardon me for not reading every post thoroughly before adding my 2 cents.

[khnyny]

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.

I agree.

[am452]

But I seriously doubt that they drove all that way just for a burglary. There will be more to the story, somehow.

Yep. Very few percentage of murders are done by total strangers. I figure drugs/gang affilitation etc

[am452]

That “arrow” looks like a model rocket

[GOP Poet]

Agreed about the low I.Q. of most crooks, however why leave a bloody knife? Just that small detail right there leads to a lot of reactions that should have followed for a man with a wife and a child.

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).

[GOP Poet]

by the way was that his wife or girlfriend? I think girlfriend. With a child involved my above thoughts still apply.

[Red Badger]

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”?

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...............

[lapster]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

One of the news stories referred to the girlfriend as his “fiancee.”

[B-Cause]

[fso301]

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.

[fso301]

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.

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.

[Uncle Hal]

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.

[BJClinton]

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?

[tirednvirginia]

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.