The funeral was moved to FIU's arena because UM's already was booked for a basketball game and being prepared for a presidential debate.

Virtually the entire Redskins organization -- players, coaches, executives -- flew to South Florida early Monday in the wake of Sunday's gloomy home game against Buffalo, a final-minute loss that shattered the remaining fragments of their fans' hearts.

When the Redskins' defensive unit took the field for its first play, only 10 players lined up -- the football version of the missing-man formation -- in honor of Taylor.

Late Monday, four young men arrested last week in Fort Myers and charged with murder and other offenses in Taylor's death were transferred to Miami-Dade County.

Charles Wardlow, 18, Jason Mitchell, 19, and Venjah K. Hunte, 20, were booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail, said corrections spokeswoman Janelle Hall. Eric Rivera, 17, was to be taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center.

A fifth man was being sought.

Police said the men planned to burglarize Taylor's house, thinking he wasn't there.

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He was there; he was shot in the early hours of Nov. 26 as he surprised the burglars and defended his girlfriend, their daughter and his home with a machete. Grievously wounded, Taylor died the next day.

A star at Gulliver Preparatory School and at UM, where he played on the 2001 national championship team, Taylor joined the Redskins in 2004.

He quickly gained a starting position in the defensive backfield and soon emerged as one of the league's most prominent, accomplished -- and fierce -- safeties, earning a trip to the league's most recent Pro Bowl.

And then it ended, last Monday, in the early morning darkness, with senseless violence.

Escorted by his family and close friends, Taylor's body was taken through the lengthening shadows of Monday afternoon to a local cemetery for a private burial.

''Sean will never, ever be forgotten,'' Pastor Alphonso Jackson III said. ``God, we put this in your hands today. Help us get through this hour.''

Miami Herald staff writers Oscar Corral, John Devine, Michelle Kaufman, Jennifer Lebovich and David Ovalle contributed to this report.