The Post had the best article I've seen on this topic in this morning's paper:
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As you can tell from the idiotic comments that people have left on the website, people cannot accept the possibility that this crime was really a burgulary gone wrong. Perhaps we'll find out something later, but right now this article makes quite a bit of sense. I love how everyone puts on their detective hats and starts saying "oh, he had a machete under the bed, that is so crazy, he must have known something was going to happen, I've seen that in a movie once." Well, in subtropical climates a machete is a really common gardening tool and you can get it at any hardware store. I have a baseball bat under my bed and there's no one 'gunning' for me.
Or "oh, a knife was left on the bed, so that was clearly a mafia style message, I've seen that in a movie once." Well, a better explanation would be that it was a kitchen knife and was used as a tool to pry open a window and to try to get into a safe as the article postulates.
Or, "they kicked in the door, clearly this was a hit, I've seen it in a movie once. Plus, no one knew he was going to be home so clearly the hit man was staking out the property." Well, perhaps a much better explanation is that the criminals did not expect to find anyone in the house, they kicked in the door to find a safe, and then pissed down their leg when they saw someone in the room with a machete. They poped off two shots and ran, unfortunately they were fatal, but that wasn't the intent.
Or, the worst one of all, which I've actually now heard a couple of times, "he was shot in the groin, clearly this is something to do with retribution from someone Jackie was having an affair with, I've seen it in a movie once." Or, most people don't know how to properly handle a firearm, these criminals had seen 'Scarface' and thought violence was stylized but when when reality came in all they could do was pop off a few blind shots and run.
Rush to judgement off information that you've never seen and off reports that are contradictory. The really horrible part is that if this really as a random (random in that they were not intending to murder Sean Taylor, just try to get at the safe), then the odds of actually catching these individuals will decline. And people like Colin Cowherd and Mike 'from the streets' Wilbon still won't be satisfied.