Documents provide further details about Redskins star’s murder

Mar/19/08 06:15 PM Filed in: Sean Taylor
When Miami police got to Sean Taylor’s house Nov. 26, they found pry marks on a wooden door and a shattered glass sliding door, shot open apparently by a 9 mm gun.

The crime scene reports leave clues about the entry and departure of the intruders. About three dozen pages of documents were released Wednesday by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office as part of public information requests by news-press.com.

Eric Rivera, Venjah Hunte and Charles Wardlow, all of Fort Myers, and Jason Mitchell of Lehigh Acres are charged with murder and armed robbery in connection with Taylor’s death. The Washington Redskins All-Pro safety was shot in the leg Nov. 26 and died the next day due to blood loss.

Detectives found three bullet casings in the house, where the intruders came in through the back patio bathroom door, as well as shoe prints above the gate surrounding Taylor’s house. Detectives sent labs shoe-print impressions, DNA swab kits from inside and outside of the house as well as a paper receipt found outside the front of the house.

Also included in the documents is a report from Dec. 1, when Miami-Dade police divers searched an area of Interstate 75, looking for the weapon used to shoot Taylor. Detectives searched beyond a fence, one mile west of a toll plaza and north of the interstate. Two searches were fruitless for divers.

(news-press.com)