Celebrity Justice
Football Horror: Three Charged in Taylor Murder

Three of the four suspects in Sean Taylor's death were charged with unpremeditated murder early Saturday. Charles Wardlow, Eric Rivera and Venjah Hunte all faced the same charge. Police say the killing of Taylor was unplanned. The fourth suspect was arrested but has not yet been charged.


Miami-Dade Police Department spokeswoman Linda O'Brien identified the men as: Eric Rivera Jr., 17, Venjah K. Hunte, 20, Jason Scott Mitchell, 19 and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow, 18.

Miami-Dade County Police Director Robert Parker said the suspects didn't expect Taylor to be home when they broke into his home Monday morning. The NFL Pro Bowler surprised them and was fatally shot. The suspects -- all of whom have prior arrests -- are expected to make their first appearance in a Fort Myers courtroom sometime today.



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61. I thought about joining the good fight until I realized that if we were to succeed....we wouldn't have anything to complain about......that would totally suck.

Posted at 3:40PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Count me out

62. To the people who have agreed with me, thank you, but I don't really want people dead. I was just making a point. Yes, it's frustrating to deal with such ignorant, horrible people, but we can't kill them - even if they deserve it. I do wish they could see the hurt they cause, and understand how morally low they are, but they won't. They all die in the end any way, after a much more limited life than ours.

I do hope that the people who have agreed with me find reasonable ways to be intolerant of intolerance. If we yell loud enough, we'll be heard. Being quiet doesn't work. Shout it out.

Posted at 3:41PM on Dec 1st 2007 by FIGHT

63. LOL You can't take it back now!

Posted at 3:45PM on Dec 1st 2007 by i'm so very in

64. we have to stop this black on black crime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:52PM on Dec 1st 2007 by lito

65. Nice point FIGHT. I just wonder how to deal with people who are so damaged mentally that they are a lost cause. I talk to people all the time about these things and have been horrified by people who are actually proud of their backwards thinking. I do have a serious problem with people who are willing to murder innocent people over material things and issues like racism. I can talk a very good talk on just about any level, but sometimes it is time to make a stand. Call it violent, but I felt good about putting a beat down on some racist idiot who called my friend the 'n-word' to his face while my friend was managing at his restaurant. He may not of learned much from his beating, but I told him exactly why he was getting his ass kicked while it was happening. I still have no regrets about it to this day. The guy was also a bully and he finally met his match on that day.

Posted at 3:55PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Any more?

66. What is so hard about this....

Do not do unto others what you do not want them to do to you.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

Posted at 3:58PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Confucious

67. Any more is an admitted felon.......!!

Posted at 4:08PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Moral..

68. 'moral', about a hundred people saw it happen on a busy night. The guy was a bully who outweighed me by 60 #s and had 4" of height on me. He definitely became threatening in his talk and mannerisms. He got beat up, but left under his own power. He just didn't know that I have 14 years of close combat martial arts training under my 'belt'. My instructor does not permit random fighting and I live by that ideal. I do not look for fights and I am generally very peaceful and friendly, but he crossed the line and paid for his ignorance. I made a lot of new friends that night. If I am a 'felon' for standing up for people's rights and defending people who cannot defend themselves, then so be it!

Posted at 4:22PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Any more?

69. I am tough Fight....With only a couple of sentences I made you realize what you had typed and how morally wrong it was. You can call the kettle black all day long but your goal will never be acomplished this way.

You will never be able to control other people...but one day you may be able to control yourself.

Never shut up...just think before you talk.

Posted at 4:22PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Scoop Doggy Poop

70. I understand what you're saying. To do something like that to a decent person, especially in public, is awful. It's degrading, and embarrassing to the victim, and it's very hard to stand by and do nothing. It's very hard to draw the line between what people deserve, and what you can do to them. You see people being discriminated against, and degraded, in front of their children, and wonder ... how long can we remain passive? Like people on here saying Sean Taylor deserved what happened to him. How does a man asleep with his family ever ask for something like that? How must that make the mother of his baby feel? Or his parents? And we're supposed to sit back quietly, and be better than them? The things they do, and even just the things they hope for, make it too easy to say "Well, I'm still better than them even if I wish them dead".

And, yes, the blatant "pride" of it is scary. It's one thing to be ignorant - to not know any better, but to be fully aware and proud? Not good.

Posted at 4:27PM on Dec 1st 2007 by FIGHT

71. Scoop ... it was "Season's Greetings" who made me think. Get over yourself, you're a pud.

And to "Moral", or "Scoop" - whoever ... felons are usually convicted of something. All I got from that is that Any more is a person who's been in a fight.

Posted at 4:27PM on Dec 1st 2007 by FIGHT

72. DANG!! THAT'S HOW YOU SPELL " U G L Y " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 4:29PM on Dec 1st 2007 by noitall

73. These punks deserve nothing less than living their lives out as everyones biotch in prison...have fun boys ! You deserve EVERYTHING you receive...

Posted at 4:28PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Lynnie

74. I blame Abe Lincoln.

Posted at 4:31PM on Dec 1st 2007 by Redneck Messiah

75. yeah noitall, white people have to hear it from blacks when they kill a black, and blacks have to hear it from whites when they kill a black or a white. give it up!

Posted at 4:33PM on Dec 1st 2007 by unbelievable

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