Sean Taylor Fatally Shot at Home - Deceased

[Jorge10]

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I didn't realize professional hitmen missed on 50% of their shots and went for the groin/thigh area.

This is a sad moment, because all evidence points to Sean Taylor having really grown up and matured over the last year or so, and had gone far from the knucklehead days of his earliest NFL career.

But there is no evidence pointing to a "professional hit" at all, and no evidence contradicting anything the girlfriend is reported to have said, and any wild ass speculation is, at this point, complete and total conjecture.

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I don't think a professional hitman was necessarily involved. In fact, it's much more likely to be people he knew, maybe an old member of his posse before he actually grew up. Some of those guys don't take rejection lightly.

The fact is that when somebody breaks into your house, takes nothing or at least not much ("rifling through drawers"? meh) and leaves a knife on the bed, we aren't talking about a robbery. The guy coming back and shooting him is just confirmation at this point - he likely already knew he was in some serious trouble. If anything, the sad part is that because he was already on probation for gun charges, he couldn't really defend himself and, I guess, didn't have enough security around him to make up for it.

Anyway, enough about this; I'm sorry the guy's dead and it's a sad day for the NFL/fans.

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Dude,
That is such wild and unnecessary speculation and frankly, stereotyping. Because he was young, black, rich he must have had members of his posse who wanted a piece. He grew up in a middle class family in a good neighborhood with a cop as a father. He wasnt a gangbanger that got lifted out by his athletic abilities. By all accounts it sounds as if Sean was a nice and humble young man. I really hope I am taking your post wrong.

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It doesnt have to be a gangbanger or anything like that. Just a dude who maybe Sean used to hang out with and decided to stop hanging out with and lost it. 2 things dont make a lot of sense and seem to point to an irrational person.

1) Why break in and take nothing, but leave a knife in the bed?

2) Why shoot the groin?

It sounds like a person who wanted to hang out with Sean and didnt take rejection too well. It doesnt sound like the guy wanted to kill Sean because he wouldnt have been shooting at the lower region if he did. He just got unlucky.

I think its the same as the Conan case. I mean look at the priest who was arrested for stalking Conan O'Brian. I am pretty sure no one involved in that case was a gangbanger, but I am pretty sure the guy arrested was nuts and might have hurt Conan if Conan would have told him he didnt want to hang out.