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After Desperate Attempt to Save a Life, A Struggle to Understand Its Violent End
Jazmin Taylor, 14, the sister of Sean Taylor, was joined by relatives and friends at the home of their father, Pedro.
(By Carl Juste -- Miami Herald)
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"That's cold reality -- looking at going to jail," Hill said.
Taylor took his closest relatives on house-hunting trips three years ago, searching for a quiet place where he could escape. He liked the peacefulness of the house on Old Cutler Road. Jackie and their daughter lived there much of the time, and Williams said Taylor loved to tinker around with home projects when he was around.
The machete he reportedly kept in his room for protection and reportedly wielded against the intruder on Monday morning, was usually used for whacking weeds in the yard, his father said. A favorite pastime of Taylor's was chasing the wild iguanas and peacocks that would make their way into the yard. Just a few weeks ago, Williams and Taylor sweated in the afternoon sun, painting the wall around the house white.
In fact, Taylor felt so comfortable at the house, he either never installed or rarely turned on a security alarm system -- accounts from family and friends differed. Police told the family that the intruders scaled the fence in the front near the sliding gate in the driveway.
Tuesday morning, that gate stood open as detectives combed the house and yard for clues. Williams stopped by a couple of times but left because the feeling of seeing the house as the murder site of his cousin was unbearable. Gisonni remembered an assembly last spring when Taylor returned to Gulliver and addressed the school. He talked about dreams and how the students needed to seize the opportunities they were given in life.
When Taylor saw Gisonni, his face brightened.
"Mr. G!" he shouted, Gisonni recalled.
Which is why Gisonni seemed so disheartened to see news reports casting Taylor as some kind of rogue figure.
"I knew him!" he shouted in the phone. "People will always judge without knowing a person."
