Bothell pair wanted in connection with assault, shooting

what has happened to the people in this story?

READ 1ST POST BELOW THIS BEFORE READING THIS ONE - THIS IS 2 of 2 - And in this world there are so many sad stories to read and I wish we knew the stories behind more of the faces we see in articles like this one. Then maybe we could learn from their mistakes. At least there would be some point and purpose to whatever they did that could actually benefit someone out here who listened to their story and was touched by it. Maybe one moment in that person's life will be consequentially different because the story of someone who's lesson came too late. In that moment they remembered hearing Naji's story and how he threw away his freedom because he lost his head in the heat of the moment and how much he wished he could rewind time back to that day and take it back. Now his days are all the same inside the walls of a place that no one wants to be. His actions that day effected his life and the lives of everyone he loves. By sharing his story years ago as a Meadowdale football star, and now seeing what his future held, maybe he has effected a stranger, somewhere halfway around the world, who stopped and remembered Naji in an intense moment in his life when his reaction could have detrimental effects on his future. Instead of repeating the same headline, he thought it through and choose the way Naji wished he had. Unfortunately, if we didn't punish the actions of people in this world, no one would learn from their mistakes, or likely regret them. I have no idea if this couple regrets what they did, although I'm sure they wish they hadn't done it because of the consequences they are facing now. And if you ask the victim if she thinks they feel guilt or ask her family if the people who brutally beat her and tried to kill her were "good people" who lost thier heads, I'm sure the story in a newspaper years ago about a football player who broke down about his painful upbringing is not saying much about who they are now or provoking feelings of mercy. But that's why we have no right to judge anyone else. We can only learn from things like this and hope the people effected can learn from it too. But please, do not use this comment board to post negativity anymore. Please respect others and how your gossip effects them and their families and loved ones. Remember this is a permanent way of bashing someone's reputation that could be found by their children's children in 100 years and change their lives and that change could have a ripple effect and circle back around to your family or someone you love. Life is too hard and too complicated for any one of us to pretend we're above ending up somewhere we never thought we could be. The world would be a better place to live if we all stopped judging each other and try to learn from each other's mistakes, instead of hating each other for them. My prayers go out to the suffering and their families. I want to apologize for the disrespect in this comment board for the writers who have many more lessons to learn still.

I'm not in the habit of reading blogs at all or comments on the bottom of articles about someone being brutally BRUTALLY beaten and shot and robbed amoung other things, but I happen to know the people involved in this particular story so I ended up reading this list of entries and now I'm not sure what appauls me more. What these two have done to someone who has done nothing but help them since she met them, or the way people have taken it upon themselves to write their uneducated and quickly assumed judgements down on the Internet for the entire world to read, including the families of all three of these people?!?! While your busy bashing their reputations and writing stories about what happened that are all completely mixed up and inaccurate, making jokes, having racial discussions, there's really not a lot that hasn't made it into this list of comments, but imagine if you were the victim. Everyone who knows you is going to read this. Your entire family, all your family's friends and thier families. All your professional relationships, your landlord, your boss, your co-workers, all your friends. On top of all that, this case is obviously going to end up in court, and this blog will be read by lawyers and police and judges, anyone who has any involvement with any of these three people's lives, weather it be personal, professional, or legal. These comments can and most definitely have, had negative effects on all of them and I can tell you right now, as factual truth is entering this room for about the first time, not a single one of these comments, aside from the few people asking you all to not talk about things you know nothing about, the rest of these disgracful comments are absolutely false and completely ridiculous. I can't imagine the level of maturity, compassion, and insensitivity it requires to take it upon yourself to bash and judge these people. Someone has been beaten brutally, pepper sprayed, tied up, shot inches from her heart and her head, threatened with death, threatened with killing her mother, robbed, terrified, traumatized, and had her home and security completely violated and trashed. And now her reputation. And the accused couple were both 21 year old hopefuls on January 2nd. By mid day on the 3rd, their lives and their futures were almost completely unrecognizable. They had made choices that will change their lives forever, and the lives of everyone that loves and cares about them. Those of you making light of any of their lives, you have some lessons coming. Some speed bumps on the road of life. Some unforeseen stressful situation that will test you and every assumed security you take for granted. You think it could never happen to you and these people are not as good as you? You think you know about their lives and some rumor you've heard about them makes them bad or deserving? Bad things happen to good people every day. When your life is turned upside down and blasted all over the papers and the Internet for the world to pass their thoughtless judgements on you and pry into your life, exposing their assumptions and gossip, rewriting your life for you in permanent ink for the world to see and talk about you behind your back without even the slightest concern for the repercussions it will have on your life, you might change the way you interpret the news and the tragedies happening to the real lives you read about every day. What's really confusing about the logic in this blog is how the introduction of drugs into this situation automatically decides that these people are all worthless and whatever they did or was done to them was obviously deserved because drug addicts are all....POS? I love the comment that says, " this woman was their dealer and the families of the accused have obtained lawyers for these kids" WTF!!!! So if this woman is a dealer she deserved for them to beat her? So badly that she couldn't open her eyes, shoot her and try to kill her, tie her up, rob her, force her down into her basement and put a gun to her head while she's crying, terrified, and begging them to spare her life! I just can't wrap my mind around some of the ignorant people in here who must be living under a rock to think that drug addicts aren't all around us in this world, disguised as "normal", and judged as "weak and lacking will power or self worth". Teachers, doctors, PTA moms, police officers, your neighbor, your child's babysitter, your house cleaner. Addictions are more a part of the lives of human beings in this world then spirituality, education, volunteering, donating, contributing to the better good of anyone besides our selves and own lives. If you think for a second, that after learning that someone is a "dealer", which by the way she is most definetly not, that this crime now has any defense what so ever for the brutally violent, cruel, and merciless crimes they committed that day, HA! You're sadly mistaken. And who said she's a dealer? The couple? The obviously drug addicted, armed and dangerous couple that are looking for any possible defense for what they did that's going to undoubtedly cost them the next 5-20 years of their lives? Oh. Well, that's a real reliable source. Don't hesitate to bash this woman's reputation to the whole world, like she doesn't have enough going on in her life right now. Like anyone has the right to beat anyone else black and blue and bloody, much less a man beating a woman, with weapons and two against one and pepper spray, and tieing her up and shooting her and stealing all her things, but making special point to take every phone, then leaving her for dead. My other favorite comment was, "how do you know it wasn't self defense?" Wow. I'm not sure that this is even worth trying to communicate with these people, who I'm sure will respond with some brash and simple minded come backs instead of really evaluating their position and considering my points and putting themselves in an open minded frame of mind and showing some strength in character and maybe admitting that they did say things with out really considering the impact or how they would feel if their lives were subject to public bashing and judgement. We've all been wrong and made mistakes before. Hopefully we're able to learn from the things we regret before we react so drastically violent and carelessly with our own lives and futures that we end up in a situation costing us years of our lives behind bars and away from everyone we love and the opportunities we have to experience happiness every day, like the couple in this article. Even though I obviously am a fan of the victim, I believe that everyone has a little bad and a little good inside them, even the mass murderers we read about and lock our doors at night for, I'm sure their mothers and families have fond memories of them and can tell stories that would warm our hearts and inspire us to believe in the goodness inside that person and wonder what happened to them and who hurt them so terribly in their past to create such a cold and calculated monster capable of the sick and evil things they have done. People are all different. This world has created all kinds. And no theory we were to come to from any article or biography we might have read, or as close as we might feel to someone in our lives, a best friend even, not everyone is what they portray themselves to be. Some people hide their goodness and some people hide their badness. There's a million conclusions to be drawn from the events in someone's life and there's always someone easy to blame, but at the end of the day the only person who can accurately explain themselves and who they are and the things they do, is that person.

If you dont no the people involved in this story then you shouldnt be talking bad or good about them! I personally no them all and the victim is an awesome lady who always helps people out and ends up getting screwed, so for them to do her like that after how she has helped them. I just cant believe that anyone would do something so terrible to anyone EVERY!!! Hang in there to the victim cause we love you , your a great friend!

THE REAL DEAL ::::::::::::    So for all the people on here defending these two you are blinded yes they may have been good kids growing up or lived through ruff times but that never gives you an excuse in life to do what they have done. The couple had been staying with her because female suspect lost her job and male suspect was unemployed. The female suspect worked for a shoe company and was fired because she was stealing shoes to resale so she isn't as innocent as yal people are saying. So the victim being the kind hearted person she is, opened her home to these two dead beats letting them sleep, eat, etc in her home because they were not paying their bills and had no running water or electric. The Female  suspect went to the car on the morning of the incident and grabbed the gun and gave it to her boyfriend and he pointed the gun at her to show the weapon and to make her subserviant, by pistol wiping victim. From there female suspect tied victim up using duck tape or some sort of rope. The male suspect  damanded the victim to tell him where any money, jewelry or any thing of value was hidden. When she wouldn't comply, he then in return pistol whiped her again causing the weapon to go off accidently shooting her in the collar bone area. With the gun going of this caused panic so they grabbed anything and everything of value and hoped in their car and disappeared. "What would cause these two to do something like this you ask"? Desperate and at the end of their financial rope the made a desperate attempt to get some extra cash.  I talked to someone aquainted with the two suspects who knew them very well and asked where and what was the girlfriend doing the whole time this was going on. Quote " She was letting her boyfriend do as he pleased with the victim and she accompanied him in any demand or help he needed in restraining and questioning the victim". "She was the main one tieing her up and spraying mace in the victims eyes while her boyfriend continued to beat her face in." Quote Unquote".  They were desperate and broke and when your in the state of mind there in and situation people go through desperate measures no matter who the person is she could have been family and they still would have done this the boy did not work and the girlfriend was working and stealing from the store she worked for and fired I am sure for stealing but I am not sure. I do believe that she was a good girl sucked into this boys issues... he had a ruff upbringing could not imagine but that should be drive to better him self but he got wrapped up into the wrong things and so did this girl. They went extreme they could have robbed her without doing tourtues things to her. Not that they should have at all.... Was it worth a little money to spend 25 years to life in prison for attempted murder??? We all go through hard times and I am sure the women attacked provoked them into anger some how for some reason unknown maybe she was kicking them out for bumming off her for so long but they were out for one thing and that was to rob her. And please stop with all the pathetic banter of racism.... This has nothing to do with black or white damn people grow up this is 2013 it pathetic. This was a sad sad thing this young couple have ruined there lives and my heart goes out to the young women attacked and to the families of the couple. I cant imagine how they feel to have there children wanted for attempted murder and there faces blasted all over the place. I have seen so much devastation of young people going down the wrong path ruining there lives and have lost alot of friends over twenty of them who chose the wrong path and are no longer with us. They were all star athletes, A+ students, models, promising young souls who chose the wrong path. These two are not in the right state of mind and when they are caught and in jail will see the error of there ways and clean up there act unfortunatly it will be to late to change what has happened..... I know it is hard for the people on here who knew the suspects to believe someone they may have known to be kind and bright to do such things but look at all the people who have done things no one could imagine or was out of there character for example the kid who shot all those people in the oregon mall was a popluar bright young man with know prior history of violence or criminal history and randomly shot and killed a bunch of innocent people in a mall then took his own life and that will never be known why.......... people have there own darkness and sometimes it gets the better of them so lets just pray or have thoughts for the victim and suspects and there families.... END THE VIOLENCE................ If you see people in need or out of there element get them help or help them so we can stop this madness.... Take care all peace and love sammy.......

Just wondering why so many nice looking, promising young women fall for the "bad boy" type?  is it because of adventure and rebellion against the system at this young, impressionable age??  I have no clue. I myself, growing up always ran the other way when so called "friends" tried to get me to do something wrong. I RAN as fast as I could with my dignity and self respect intact. Why do so many fall for this peer pressure crap?  If it feels wrong, then its wrong. Time to wake up and smell the roses, young ones. Doing anything illegal or immoral will never have a happy outcome in your life.

Why do so many young men in their mug shots tilt their chins up like Little Persons trying to see over the counter at the store?

It makes them look so small and weak and vulnerable, like a tiny animal obviously puffing out its fur to intimidate a much-larger predator. 

Those of you who don't know the couple should just stop commenting, whats your business anyway? What needs to be happening is praying for the families of these two and stop judging people you don't know anything about! I knew the both of them very well and got really close to Megan she may have acted tough because Naji's a tough guy because of his up bringing but she wouldn't hurt a person and neither would Naji unless threatened like any person would. There is so MUCH more to this story and as of right now we are only hearing this womens side. If they were actually house sitting for her she trusted them enough with that responsibility. Until the truth and nothing but the truth is finally released and someone is tried in court everyones innocent until proven guilty. 

 

 

He's a dirtbag and you are hella dumb for defending him hey maybe he'll get off on it then do it to you is that what u need to see before you quit blaming circumstances and blame the person we all choose to be good or evil. Tell the victims family that crazy nonsense if was my family and u said defended him u would have problems

A little history of Naji: since age 2 he was in and out of foster care, he watched his father mudered (shot 7 times by a drive by shooting). When he lived with his mother he had no food to eat and road the subways in New York so he didnt have to return back to the house this was at age 11. At the age of 13 he was adopted by Dan and Katie Taylor, Dan is a teacher and girls basketball coach. Kate is a substitute teacher, Naji was an outstanding football player for Meadowdale high and highly recruted by D1 schools, unfortantely he didnt have the grades to get into the schools.He was a good kid and very polite considering where he had came from. I understand that this child has made a huge judgment error of doing something unforgivable, However I have watched this child grow up throughout high school and no way is or was he a thug. Something has made him stray down the wrong path recently.

All their old friends say they are innocent. and anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist?..Ha ! It's funny how this old women survived to name her attackers. It's doubtful The Island County Sheriffs Dept and KOMO have made a mistake about the warrant or them being considered armed and dangerous.

Scum of society. 

There is so much I'd like to say here, most of which would get me banned. Stupid, stupid, little $**t*. They're done. 

I knew Naji in high school, wasnt friends with him or anything but he was a decent guy. Hell of a football player too. I feel like there's more to the story then whats in this article.

He ain't a killer, he's still learning how to walk.

If you look at her her FB page you will see by her pictures that she is obviously extremely into him however when you look at his FB page you will not find any pictures of her or any mention of him having a girlfriend. People can blame him all they want but she is an adult and it was her choice to live her life for him. There are only 2 pictures of her child and dozens of her boyfriend. I am sick and tired of these women not putting their kids first!!! Now because of her choice to tag along with her wonderful babby daddy who I'm sure felt disrispected (saracasm) this child is not going to grow up with either parent. GOOD JOB MOM AND DAD!! 

No matter where Naji Roshad Moore-Taylor ends up — he plans on going to college and would one day like to coach — he thinks about where he came from and how far he has come. He already considers his life a success.