Four arrested in Taylor slaying
The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested four people Friday in connection with the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor.
Police spokeswoman Linda O’Brien identified the men as: Venjah K. Hunte, 20; Eric Rivera Jr., 17; Jason Scott Mitchell, 19; and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow, 18.
Miami-Dade police announced that the men face charges in the death of the Washington Redskins football star following a weeklong manhunt.
“We have confessions, but I’m not going to talk about the details of the confessions at this point,” Miami-Dade Police Director Robert Parker said at a press conference in Doral.
The family of suspect Jason Mitchell, 19, told The Miami Herald he had attended a party for Taylor’s half-sister, Sasha Johnson, at Taylor’s Palmetto Bay home.
Investigators believe Taylor’s relatives may have bragged about his wealth.
Taylor died Tuesday, one day after being shot at his home in an affluent Miami suburb during what officials said appeared to be an attempted burglary. The suspects weren’t expecting Taylor to be home, Parker said, but Taylor was recuperating from a knee injury and had returned to Miami from Washington.
Around the league
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