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AWAY, SO WHO WOULD WANT TO DO
HARM TO SEAN TAYLOR AND WHY?
REPORTER ROSH LOWE IN MIAMI IS
LIVE ON THE SCENE.
ARE INVESTIGATORS WITHOUT
QUESTION MAKING A CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE BREAK-IN EIGHT DAYS
AGO AND THIS SHOOTING?
>> WELL, THEY'RE LOOKING INTO
FORCED ENTRY HERE.
THEY DO SAY THERE WAS FORCED
ENTRY INTO SEAN TAYLOR'S HOME
AND THEY ARE WONDERING AT THIS
POINT WHETHER THAT FORCED ENTRY
WAS AS A RESULT OF THE NOVEMBER
17 BREAK-IN OR THE INCIDENT THAT
OCCURRED HERE ON MONDAY MORNING.
WE'RE ALSO GETTING NEW
INFORMATION FROM POLICE, A
CRITICAL MOMENT HERE.
AFTER THE INTRUDER COMES INTO
THE ROOM AND SHOOTS, WE KNOW
THAT SEAN TAYLOR'S GIRLFRIEND
PICKED UP THE PHONE, BUT THE
PHONE BEHIND WAS DEAD, AND THERE
IS SPECULATION FROM TAIL ***'S
ATTORNEY THAT THOSE PHONE
BEHINDS WERE ACTUALLY CUT, SO
CRITICAL MOMENTS WERE LOST.
FINALLY, FIRE RESCUE GETS HERE.
THEY TRANSPORT TAYLOR TO THE
RYDER TRAUMA CENTER IN MIAMI AND
THEN IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL
ROLLERCOASTER.
LAST NIGHT PEDRO TAYLOR, A
POLICE CHIEF, SAYS YOU KNOW
WHAT?
MY SON IS RESPONDING TO DOCTORS.
EVERYONE WAS HOPEFUL BUT AS
DAYBREAKS, HOPE TURNED INTO
DESPAIR.
JOHN: ROSH, SEAN TAYLOR IS DEAD,
OF COURSE.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY HE WAS
TARGETED?
>> WELL, THE FACT THAT HE WAS
TARGETED BEING CONFIRMED BY
MIAMI-DADE POLICE.
THEY ARE NOT RELEASING A LOT OF
INFORMATION.
WE DO KNOW THAT IN JUNE 2005, HE
DID HAVE A RUN-IN WITH THE LAW.
HE WAS ACCUSED OF POINTING A GUN
AT SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS.
HE LATER PLED THAT OUT TO A
MISDEMEANOR.
AT THIS POINT, MIAMI-DADE POLICE
ARE MAKING ABSOLUTELY NO
CONNECTION BETWEEN ANY PRIOR
INCIDENT, EVEN THE BURGLARY IN
THIS CASE.
IN FACT, IF THEY DO HAVE A GOOD
LEAD, THEY DON'T WANT TO DETER
ANYONE FROM COMING FORWARD.
YOU HAVE TO REALIZE WHY THIS IS
HITTING MIAMI SO HARD.
SEAN TAYLOR WAS TRULY A HOMETOWN
HERO.
IN FACT, THERE IS A SCHOOL RIGHT
UP THE STREET HERE, HIS HIGH
SCHOOL, A SCHOOL THAT HAD NOT
BEEN TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
IN YEARS.
SEAN TAYLOR WAS TOLD ALMOST
SINGLEHANDEDLY BROUGHT THAT
SCHOOL TO A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
A
HERO AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI,
A HERO IN THE NFL, 24, AND NOW
GONE.
JOHN: ROSH, THANKS VERY MUCH.
HOW WILL PROSECUTORS AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT WORTOTOVE LIVE COVE
AFTERNOON HERE IN THE "CNN
NEWSROOM."
>>> HAPPENING NOW THE VIOLENT
DEATH OF NFL STAR SPARKS A
SEARCH FOR HIS KILLER.
AN AUTOPSY IS EXPECTED ON
REDSKINS PLAYER SEAN TAYLOR WHO
DIED EARLY THIS MORNING A DAY
AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE LEG AT
HIS MIAMI HOME.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR US?
>> Reporter: DON, FIRST THE
EMOTION HERE.
IT WAS EMOTIONAL LAST NIGHT
BECAUSE THE FATHER OF SEAN
TAYLOR AFTER HE WAS SHOT GAVE A
HOPEFUL NEWS CONFERENCE, SAYING
THAT SEAN WAS RESPONDING TO
DOCTORS.
BUT AS NIGHTTIME WOULD TURN INTO
DAYTIME, THAT HOPE WOULD FADE
AND WOULD TURN INTO SADNESS AS
THE NEWS WOULD COME THAT SEAN
TAYLOR PASSED AWAY.
NOW WE HAVE THE CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION.
DETECTIVES FROM MIAMI-DADE
POLICE HAVE BEEN OUT ALL MORNIN@
LONG, GOING INTO SEAN TAYLOR'S
HOME.
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR ANY BIT OF
EVIDENCE.
HERE ARE THE DETAILS AS WE KNOW
THEM.
WE KNOW THAT SEAN TAYLOR WAS
SLEEPING IN HIS BEDROOM WITH HIS
GIRLFRIEND, HIS 1-YEAR-OLD
DAUGHTER.
ACCORDING TO POLICE AN INTRUDER
BURST THROUGH THE BEDROOM DOOR,
TWO SHOTS WERE FIRED.
TAYLOR WAS HIT, RUSHED TO THE
TRAUMA CENTER WHERE HE LATER
DIED.
POLICE ARE NOT RELEASING SUSPECT
INFORMATION.
WE SPOKE TO THEM.
WHAT THEY SAID IS HEY, IT'S
DIFFICULT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THE
GIRLFRIEND WAS HIDING UNDER THE
COVERS WHEN SHE HEARD THE LOUD
NOISES.
SO, SHE MAY NOT HAVE SEEN WHO
THE SUSPECT WAS.
WE DO KNOW AND WE HAVE CONFIRMED
THIS, SEAN TAYLOR'S ATTORNEY,
WHEN SHE WENT TO CALL 911, THE
PHONE WAS DEAD.
PERHAPS THE PHONE LINES WERE CUT
SO SHE HAD TO GET IN CONTACT
WITH 911 WITH MIAMI-DADE POLICE
THROUGH HER CELL PHONE.
AND PRECIOUS MOMENTS WERE LOST.
BUT THERE WAS A MASSIVE EFFORT
TO SAVE SEAN TAYLOR'S LIFE.
HE WAS SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP HERE
IN THE COMMUNITY IN MIAMI, WENT
TO PREP SCHOOL HERE, WAS A STAR
AT THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY.
A STAR WITH THE WASHINGTON
REDSKINS.
NOW THE QUESTION IN MIAMI THIS
AFTERNOON IS WHO WOULD WANT TO
KILL SEAN TAYLOR.
WE BRING IT BACK OUT HERE LIVE.
I CAN GIVE YOU A LOOK AT THE
HOUSE OVER MY SHOULDER.
PEDRO TAYLOR, SEAN'S FATHER,
SEEN GOING IN AND OUT OF THE
HOUSE.
HE HAS EXPERIENCE IN LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
HE LEFT A FEW MOMENTS AGO.
WE SAW HIM LEAVING WITH SOME
BELONGINGS OF HIS SON.
WE SAW POLICE TAKING OUT
NUMEROUS ITEMS, PIECES OF
EVIDENCE INCLUDING A COMPUTER.
SO, WE ARE EXPECTING MIAMI-DADE
POLICE TO RELEASE MORE
INFORMATION THIS AFTERNOON.
BUT AS OF THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW,
WE KNOW THAT SEAN TAYLOR WAS
KILLED BUT WE DO NOT KNOW, WE DO
NOT HAVE ANY SUSPECT
INFORMATION.
ONLY THE INFORMATION FROM HIS
GIRLFRIEND ABOUT THE LOUD