Post #346466 by The Gnomon on Wed, Nov 28, 2007 9:32 AM

Sean Taylor

American football: Redskins' Taylor dies after shooting
Monday 11/26/2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Washington Redskins star defender Sean Taylor died early Tuesday morning after being shot Monday at his home in Miami, the National Football League club announced Tuesday.

The 24-year-old safety died in a Florida hospital where he underwent nearly seven hours of emergency surgery Monday to repair a severed femoral artery, the team announced.

He was one of the best players on the Skins. Even gone, he is still currently a league leader in interceptions. A little more than a week ago there were two back-to-back break-ins at his Miami area home. Nothing was stolen. On one of the break-ins, they say that a knife was left on his bed. Naturally, his fiancee and 18 mo daughter were scared. It has been repoted that Sean, who was on injured reserve, went down to Miami to check out the situation. In the early morning hours of the day he was to return to Washington, someone started trying to bash in his back door. Sean had his fiancee and daughter hide under the covers of his bed, he grabbed a machete that he kept nearby and went to see what was going on. When he incountered the invader, the guy shot Sean in the groin area hitting his femoral artery, then left. By the time that help arrived, Sean had lost a lot of blood and slipped into a coma from which he never recovered. This is a yet to be solved mystery.