Jermain Taylor arrested for shooting his cousin

Former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor was arrested Tuesday night at his home in Maumelle, Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock, in connection with the shooting of his cousin, according to police.

Taylor was taken into custody, booked into the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility and charged with two felonies -- first-degree domestic battery and aggravated assault -- Lt. Carl Minden, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office spokesman, told ESPN.com.

Taylor was arrested Tuesday night and charged with two felonies -- first-degree domestic battery and aggravated assault -- police said.

The cousin was in serious condition at a hospital after being shot multiple times, Minden said.

Minden said the police responded to a 911 call from Taylor's wife, Erica, at around 6 p.m. CT.

"Mr. Taylor's cousin and another individual came to his residence, and there was some sort of altercation," Minden said, adding that the two who showed up at Taylor's home were unarmed. "At some point, Mr. Taylor retrieved a handgun and fired several rounds. His cousin was struck multiple times. The cousin is alive and in serious condition at an area hospital. He has pretty serious injuries. The other person was not struck, but Mr. Taylor had fired several rounds and missed."

Minden said that when police arrived at Taylor's residence, he was "very cooperative with our investigators. He was very calm, and there were absolutely no difficulties."

Minden said police were investigating what led to the shooting. He said Taylor would be arraigned Wednesday morning.

The incident comes just two weeks after Taylor (32-4-1, 20 KOs), 36, finalized a deal for an unexpected shot at world titleholder Sam Soliman of Australia.

The fight is scheduled to headline an ESPN2 boxing special Oct. 8 at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Taylor, a 2000 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist, was middleweight world champion from 2005 to '07. He won the title by outpointing Bernard Hopkins, ending his record-setting title run at 160 pounds, and then beat him again in an immediate rematch.

Taylor made four successful defenses before getting knocked out by Kelly Pavlik in the seventh round of a dramatic fight.

In 2009, Taylor suffered a small brain bleed as a result of a brutal 12th-round knockout loss to Arthur Abraham in a super middleweight fight that was part of the Super Six World Boxing Classic.

After the injury, Taylor dropped out of the round-robin tournament and took off 26 months. But after going through extensive neurological testing, Taylor secured a boxing license in Nevada.

He returned to the middleweight division, reunited with original trainer Pat Burns, who had led him to the title, and has won four fights in a row, including three by knockout, since launching his comeback in December 2011.

The 40-year-old Soliman (44-11, 18 KOs) won the belt by outpointing Felix Sturm in Germany in May and got a lucrative offer to make his first defense against Taylor.

First bit of aggression Taylor has shown in years...bit like Audley squaring up to that dancer from ...Strictly

Pity his Cousin couldn't spoil and hold after getting hit...knowing Taylor's legendary stamina problems !!

Typical Taylor, fires off the early rounds but can't finish the job.

Trevor Berbick...missed a trick..

So all those brain scans and no one realised he was nuts.

Apparently his cousin told him he was calling his daughter Kelly..

Someone's been badly injured here. These quips are inappropriate. Just a load of cheap shots.

That's what Jermaine fired, why shouldn't we?

I don't know Taylor's cousin and I doubt he'd care if I was shot so why do I have to be all touchy feely (in a non-Yewtree way)

Bit slow today Dave, not like you to be so dum-dum.

Careful or I might go ballistic...or off half-cocked (as usual)

Careful? I won't be losing sleep about a guy who fires blanks.

Hey, don't make fun of that....or my hair trigger. You'll be staring down the barrel

I've heard you can't pull the trigger anymore. Not that I care... Dodged a few bullets in my time.

The equipment's so old it could go off in your hand at the slightest touch or even worse, blow up in your face.

are you two still rifling around for puns? Can you please stop sniping at each other? Just give it a shot please.

Leave them to it..They are having a blast..

It's very difficult to gauge where this thread is going

Well what was your aim when you first came here, Dave?

He's definitely bang out of order Chris..

He could do with a clip round the ear.

Dave and I were having a little duel. Who invited you cowboys? We all know truss doesn't pack much. Chris is so young he's still using peashooters. Adam just owns the saloon. Leave it to the real gunfighters.

Sometimes I wish you'd be a little more magnumimous, milky.

Not easy to be magnuminous with all these heckler and kochs Chris.

Reminds me of when LRR used to refer to the cocky young upstarts as 6'6" gunslingers.

One such individual started with me and I pistol over his argument