MIAMI, Nov. 27 — Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday from the gunshot wound he suffered a day earlier in his Miami home, the Washington Post reports.
“He did not make it through the night,” said Taylor’s attorney, Richard Sharpstein, who called the incident “a ridiculous, unnecessary tragedy.”
Taylor, 24, a Pro Bowl safety whose rocky first years in the NFL had given way to what teammates called a newfound maturity, died at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he had been taken after being shot once in the leg early Monday morning. Police are investigating the incident as a possible home invasion.
Sharpstein said he was informed of the death by Taylor’s father, Pedro Taylor, who called him around 5 a.m. with the news. He told CNN that the elder Taylor “was overwrought with grief and called me to tell me that Sean was with God . . . They’re just overcome at this particular point with the loss of a son and father and friend and just an incredible person.”
The bullet severed Taylor’s femoral artery, causing massive blood loss. He underwent seven hours of surgery, and there were some initially optimistic signs after he emerged from the operation early Monday evening. Described at first as “unresponsive and unconscious,” Taylor had squeezed a doctor’s hand and made facial expressions, Redskins officials and a family friend said, providing some hope.
But the trauma proved too great. The bleeding could not be stopped, only curbed a bit, Sharpstein said.
Taylor died “a couple of hours ago” surrounded by some family members, said Donald Walker, a family friend. “Things turned for the worse,” Walker said by phone from Taylor’s mother’s house around 6 a.m. There “seemed like a lot of hope after he responded to the doctor’s command. But he lost a lot of blood.”
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