Washington Redskins Safety, Father, Son and reformed bad-boy; Sean Taylor died last night from a gunshot wound that he sustained in an apparent home invasion early Monday night.

“This is just such a tragic, horrible, unnecessary death — another example of the incessant violence in this city and this country,” Richard Sharpstein, Taylor’s attorney, said early Tuesday morning.

Taylor, drafted 5th overall in 2004, had made a name for himself as a stopping force with little equal on the field. His off-field legal difficulties appeared to have been put in the past leaving behind a stronger, more mature, player.

He will be missed on the field but, even more so, our thoughts are with his family in this sad time.