The Redskins are my favorite football team, and Sean Taylor was one of my favorite players. He could hit a man and knock him back 5 yards. A tough, talented young 24 year old man.
I’ll miss watching you Sean.
MIAMI — Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor has died, a day after he was shot in the leg, said family friend Richard Sharpstein.
He said Taylor’s father called him around 5:30 a.m. to tell him the news.
“His father called and said he was with Christ and he cried and thanked me,” said Sharpstein, Taylor’s former lawyer. “It’s a tremendously sad and unnecessary event. He was a wonderful, humble, talented young man, and had a huge life in front of him. Obviously God had other plans.”
He said he did not know exactly when Taylor died.
Doctors had been encouraged late Monday night when Taylor squeezed a nurse’s hand. But Sharpstein said he was told Taylor never regained consciousness after being transported to the hospital and that he wasn’t sure how he had squeezed the nurse’s hand.
“Maybe he was trying to say goodbye or something,” Sharpstein said.
The 24-year-old Redskins safety was shot early Monday in his home in the upper leg, damaging an artery and causing significant blood loss.
That is so sad, such a needless loss, and right before the holidays. I feel so sorry for his family and for all of his fans. 😥
I was a fan…and always will be.
This is so sad. What do you think really happened? At first it was thought to be a burglary gone wrong, but being the police have nothing to go on (a clean job?) and what his childhood friend Antrel Rolle has to say about it (see http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3132378), I’m not sure what to think. I hope they catch who did it, and I’m curious to know if this was just random or something deeper.
I have a feeling that we will never know what really happened, or who did it.