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Suspects could be same ones in previous Taylor burglary
By Tom Zulewski
November 30, 2007
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Miami-Dade County Police Director Robert Parker talks to reporters during a news conference in Miami, Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. Four suspects, Venjah K. Hunte, 20; Eric Rivera Jr., 17; Jason Scott Mitchell, 17; and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow, 18, were arrested Friday in connection with the shooting death of Washington Redskins football player Sean Taylor.
(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Venjah K.Hunte 20, Eric Rivera 17, Jason Scott Mitchell 17, and Charles Kendrick Ward Low 18 all four were arrested some 100 miles outside of Miami as suspect in the murder of Sean Taylor. Miami Police spokeswoman Linda O'Brien said no charges have been filed against the four but said, "we are talking murder and burglary".
O'Brien said the four are headed to Lee County Jail and that no court date has been set. Taylor who died on Tuesday went to his home in Miami in an affluent neighborhood and while sleeping was awaken by loud noises in the house.
Taylor, who kept a machete in his room for protection had his door broken into and one of the suspects shot twice missing once and hitting Taylor in the upper leg. Taylor who was in the bedroom with his longtime girlfriend Jackie Garcia and his 18 month old daughter was hit in a main artery and later it was announced by doctors the following day that Taylor had died from a loss of blood. Neither Garcia nor the baby were hurt.
The last time Taylor's home was burglarized the suspects left a calling card in the form of a threat a knife on Taylor's bed. It was said by the Arizona Cardinals Antrel Rolle a good friend of Taylor's that Taylor wanted to break away from that old crowd he used to know and start the life of a family man that that old crowd didn't like Taylor's new life and out of either jealousy or revenge for forsaking his old crowd was the real reason why Taylor was killed.
ESPN and the Miami Herald reported that one of the suspects was heard bragging to his friends about the killing and that the house that they were in belonged to a wealthy football player.
Rolle said this was no random killing this was over revenge for leaving his old friends and you don't leave those kinds of old friends like that and that was the reason why they left a knife on his bed after the first robbery.
When bragging about the killing one of the people who overheard the conversation called police identifying who the suspects were and where to find them.
Tom Zulewski contributes to the SRS web page and co-hosts Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento.
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