Here is a
story about how the wealthy are being increasingly targeted for home invasion, all the way from wealthy investors like Warren Buffet's sister and super hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert, to NBA stars like Antoine Walker and Eddy Curry.
Some security experts think that because traditional private commercial areas are so well protected now, robbers are turning to the relatively lax security of the private homes of the super wealthy. Most of the robbers look for quick heists of jewelery and cash (especially from NBA players) or to quickly intimidate the rich in question to giving up their ATM or bank account numbers. Many of these crimes are pretty amateurish and not well thought out in advance, and perhaps Sean Taylor's tragedy is just a symptom of this new style of robbery.