The reports are now that the phone wasn’t cut, but was simply not working. If they had an alarm, it would have a special phone jack that seizes the phone line during an event(you cannot defeat an alarm by running in the home and taking a phone off the hook). If the alarm was actively sending in info to a monitoring center, when his girlfriend attempted to use the phone, it would not have worked.
I don’t buy it as a murder hit…who shoots someone in the leg/groin and runs if the goal is to kill someone? The shooter would have stepped in and finished the job.
It’s all just speculation at this point, but if it was a hit, I doubt we’re talking about “Carlos the Jackal” or John Wilkes Booth doing the job here. . .the cool assassin with ice in his veins.
It’s hard enough to hit a stationary target accurately in a well-lit controlled environment.
I would imagine that it is pretty difficult to accurately hit a guy who has a machete and is moving in a pretty tense situation (people conceivably hollering and moving).
He probably saw that he caught meat, and took off. The dude was probably more scared than Taylor.
Still, who knows what the details are. Like someone said, it looks like a phone line wasn’t cut. Who knows if stuff was actually stolen? Might have been.
I just really thought the burglary story sounded incomplete.
I run the security division of a low voltage company, and I agree that both the “burglary” and the “hit job” stories have some fishy pieces…neither really seems to make sense. Phone lines are often cut during robberies (when the job is being done by an actual thief, and not kids from the neighborhood), because 90% of all alarms can be defeated this way. What I don’t understand is, how in the world can an NFL player making millions of dollars not have a backup transmission system(which cost $200-$300 for the equipment, and an additional $10 or so a month), how can he not have a true perimeter on his security system, and how can he not have a security camera system?
I could make a house into basically Ft. Knox, with cameras and recorders for under $20,000(and I’m talking a huge mansion, with all the bells and whistles). If you are a millionaire, you get robbed, and you don’t install every device known to man to protect your family the next day?
Incidentally Taylor’s friend Antrel Rolle doubts the burglary angle.
He basically says that Taylor had been trying to build a stable life for himself (and presumably his kid) and people he was once friends with aren’t too crazy about it. Rolle says that Taylor lives in fear when he goes back to Miami.
You have to ask why the fuck he still lived there then. He’s a millionaire and he plays in DC. Methinks he wasn’t trying that hard to start a new life.
It’s his home though right? I get not leaving because presumably his family is there although I probably would leave myself - especially because my work is in Washington.
He bought the place about 2 years ago. I suppose you could say that Miami is “home” and that no one is going to drive you out of your house out of pride, but if he was really “living in fear” that’s pretty thin.
I think Rolle is probably taking some liberties in his assessment. As a uber-macho NFL player, he’s supposedly a bit of a loud mouth even my NFL standards, Taylor more likely realized he was at risk, but assumed he was a tough guy and could handle anything.
mr. taylor’s father is a police chief in a town close to miami. it is possible that to him florida is home and he could have other relatives in the area.
with just 2 shots fired, one hitting him in a vital spot is unluckily amazing.
very sad for parents burying a child and a child growning up without her dad.
Let’s see, live near dad and possibly other family and risk death, not live near them, not risk death. Pretty easy choice. And I also think its very weird if you live in fear, and yet have no alarm, or a crappy alarm, and can afford one.
It could go either way. I remember a while back Seattle Seahawk Ken Hamlin got cold-cocked outside a night club. Later that night, the person who had assaulted him (a Terrell Milam) turned up dead. I was sure that it was by some member of Hamlin’s entourage, but it didn’t run out that way. Months later, it turned out it was just your basic gang hit. The altercation with Hamlin earlier in the night was just a coincidence.
I am a Redskin fan & will cop to being surprised at the level of hate coming to him in this thread. I won’t argue or defend point by point but I will try to clear up one big misunderstanding that is repeated over and over.
The media continues to report that Taylor was charged with brandishing a gun and brutally beating a guy. What is the truth behind this is that fair? Well this certainly was alleged at first. The Victim (who sued Taylor after) said there was no gun brandished. You don’t hear that much –huh? Taylor’s lawyer always alleged Prosecutorial misconduct. Whether this was literally true or not, the fact remains that once the initial prosecutor was removed (Taylor’s lawyer alleged the prosecutor was using the case to promote his South Beach disc jockey businesses – yeah you read that right) Taylor was allowed to plead guilty to two misdemeanors of aggravated assault (no gun charges) and given 18 months probation. Hardly likely that the prosecutors thought they could prove the brutal gun fueled beating that you are reading about. On this issue I think “bad athlete from da U getting into thug trouble” is too interesting an angle for the media not to follow – but the facts of this case do not bear that angle out.
He was also convicted of DUI.
Guess what? That’s it. Off the field that’s the rap sheet it for this thug-life-vicious bad boy who some feel got what he had coming to him by being shot in a probable botched robbery (as the Police investigating and with all the facts are publicaly saying) in his home in the middle of the night.
The media wouldn’t lead you to believe that would it?
*On the field he spit at Michael Pittman, he was fined for late hits and uni violations, he refused to work out in DC with the skins, he held out – he did football bad stuff – but the worst thing? I submit it was refusing to speak to the media.
There were plenty of teary eyed “great guy tributes” on TV here … Redskins and guys on other team’s mainly former redskins or from the U.
Well, Antrell Rolle, who describes himself as a friend, said it definitely wasn’t a robbery, that Taylor had enemies. Why, lacking evidence either way, would police state they view the murder of a person with enemies as a roberry is odd, unless its a subterfuge that I don’t understand.
What Rolle actually said, having not spoken to Taylor “in a while”, was that Taylor was targeted by “jealous” ex friends and Teammates - not that he was targeted by “enemies” - which goes to my point of the exaggerated way the media is grabbing on to anything negative and blowing it beyond all proportion. The Police, who have spoken to Taylor’s girl friend, father and his everyday friends, feel no need to speak to Rolle.
Just wanted to point out that were I in similar circumstances, I’d maintain a Florida home and spend at least 181 days a year there. And everyone on this board knows exactly why.
According to reports, three people are being questioned in connection with the killing. Two of them are teenagers. It’s sounding more and more like this was a robbery to me, although the Taylor family apparently disagrees.
Seriously. . .if this is true, color me guilty as the next guy for thinking it was a hit. I wasn’t beating a drum over it or anything, but some of these national media guys have an ass load of back tracking to do.