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Johnson remembers staying up late that night watching coverage of the shooting on ESPN. He was shaken, but unaware the wounds were life-threatening. The stunning news was delivered by Mitchell, who arrived home from an over-night shift as a Miami-Dade corrections officer.
She remembers telling Johnson of Taylor’s matter-of-factly as he get dressed, then the near meltdown that followed.
After leaving her son’s room, expecting a dressed and ready middle schooler to appear. Instead, a distraught teenager returned. He was crying, barely getting the words out.
“It was like someone in my family had died. I couldn’t focus,” he said. “I couldn’t concentrate. I actually didn’t go to school. I stayed home with my mom and she just talked to me about life.”
Move ahead nearly five years, the shrine of pictures and news clippings had thinned and Johnson lived in his UM dorm room.
He was again ready to pay his respect, but in a way that said something about where he was headed.
And the jacket was born.
“The whole atmosphere of the game and knowing Sean Taylor was one of those guys who really thrived in big games and really thrived against FSU in rivalry game” Johnson said. “That was just a guy that I know, if he could play, he’d want to play. And the things the he did will never be forgotten.”
Johnson remembers staying up late that night watching coverage of the shooting on ESPN. He was shaken, but unaware the wounds were life-threatening. The stunning news was delivered by Mitchell, who arrived home from an over-night shift as a Miami-Dade corrections officer.
She remembers telling Johnson of Taylor’s matter-of-factly as he get dressed, then the near meltdown that followed.
After leaving her son’s room, expecting a dressed and ready middle schooler to appear. Instead, a distraught teenager returned. He was crying, barely getting the words out.
“It was like someone in my family had died. I couldn’t focus,” he said. “I couldn’t concentrate. I actually didn’t go to school. I stayed home with my mom and she just talked to me about life.”
Move ahead nearly five years, the shrine of pictures and news clippings had thinned and Johnson lived in his UM dorm room.
He was again ready to pay his respect, but in a way that said something about where he was headed.
And the jacket was born.
“The whole atmosphere of the game and knowing Sean Taylor was one of those guys who really thrived in big games and really thrived against FSU in rivalry game” Johnson said. “That was just a guy that I know, if he could play, he’d want to play. And the things the he did will never be forgotten.”
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