Originally posted by Ripsnort Apparently Sean Taylor did not know his killers. I made a false assumption in my previous posts about Sean and I apologize to jumping to conclusions.Though Sean did have his run ins with the law previously which drove me to an unjustifield conclusion erronously, its obvious that he was truly a victim here, and his killers were the ones surrounding themselves in a culture of drugs and crime. If found guilty, I hope they get the death penalty.
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor and his half-sister Sasha Johnson grew up on different coasts of Florida but Taylor wanted to be closer to her and bring a broken family together, according to friends and family members.Taylor bought a $900,000 house in his home town of Miami for his mother, Donna Junor. He invited Sasha Johnson, who grew up in Fort Myers, and her brother to live in it, the friends and family members said. And they said Taylor also bought Johnson a new Toyota Camry to drive to classes at Miami-Dade College. He wanted them all to be together and never want for anything again," said Dwayne Johnson, 44, Sasha's father. "Sean was her everything."But over the past few days it has become increasingly clear that investigators working on Taylor's killing believe Sasha Johnson, apparently unwittingly, provided a direct link between Taylor and the four Fort Myers men charged with killing him in a bungled burglary attempt of that same home. ............................. .........................Johnson, 21, has been dating a relative of one of the accused men since her senior year at Dunbar High in Fort Myers. Her boyfriend's relative, Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow, has confessed to having had a role in the crime, John E. Evans III, Wardlow's defense attorney, said Saturday. And Johnson's boyfriend, Christopher Devon Wardlow, brought another Fort Myers man to Johnson's birthday party at the Miami home, Johnson's father said.Police said Friday they believed one or more of the suspects had visited Taylor's home. ............................. ....................Previously, it was reported the house belonged exclusively to Taylor, but in interviews Saturday, friends and family members said Taylor bought the house with the intent of his mother living there........................ ............................. ............................. ...............By family accounts, Sean Taylor and Johnson were close. Though they grew up miles apart, they remained linked despite the upheavals of their childhoods, family members said. Junor gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls, from three different men, and then struggled to keep the household afloat. At one point, she has said, they had to stay with the Salvation Army.Sean Taylor spent most of his childhood living with his father, Pedro Taylor, now the police chief in Florida City, Fla. Dwayne Johnson said he raised Sasha from the time she was 2. They moved from Miami to Fort Myers when she was about 5. During Sasha Johnson's senior year at Dunbar -- she graduated in May 2005 -- she began dating Christopher Devon Wardlow, who goes by the name Devon. Dwayne Johnson said he disliked Devon Wardlow from the beginning."I don't like her boyfriend -- never did, never will," he said......................... ............................. .................Sasha Johnson celebrated her 21st birthday Oct. 1 with a party her mother helped organize, said Walker, who added that Sean Taylor flew down from Washington to attend it. Christopher Wardlow attended with the man from Fort Myers, who the Miami Herald has reported was Mitchell. It was from that party, some people close to Taylor believe, that the four accused killers became acquainted with Taylor's house, and then decided to target it for a burglary.
