SEAN TAYLOR UPDATE

by DCScrap, Editor

Update on our earlier post.

Redskins Insider's Jason La Canfora is reporting,

Richard Sharpstein, who has represented Sean Taylor in legal matters in the past and is a friend of the family, said moments ago that the player's life is hanging in the balance in the hospital. Sharpstein, speaking from the hospital, said Taylor is "nonresponsive and unconscious" and the doctors are "worried about a possible brain injury or death."

Sharpstein, who has been with Taylor's family at the hospital much of the day, said that there are major worries that Taylor may have lost oxygen to the brain, and that no other procedures are planned for right now. "They're waiting to see if he comes to," Sharpstein said. He was shot in the groin/thigh area near the femoral artery and lost copious amounts of blood.

It appears that Taylor was well aware of someone being in his home at the time of the shooting.

Sharpstein said Taylor was sleeping when he heard a noise in the living room. The intruder or intruders were at his bedroom and Taylor reached for a machete or other form of knife he keeps nearby in case of emergency, and two shots were fired, with one striking his leg.

La Canfora also reports that this is not the first time Taylor's house has been broken into or attempted to have been broken into in recent weeks.

We'll keep you posted here if there are any more developments in this story.