McNair's death a murder-suicide
Nashville, Tenn., police finally made official what many had suspected: former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was killed by his girlfriend, Sahel Kazemi, who then shot herself. The medical examiner office released its findings on Wednesday, saying that Kazemi had gunpower residue on her hand. It was also announced that the shell casings found at the scene came from the gun Kazemi purchased last Thursday.
The mystery of why Kazemi murdered McNair and killed herself is a little clearer, too. Police said she was upset over financial problems and suspicions that McNair was seeing another woman. None of this should lead one to take another person's life or her own, but this was the act of an apparent emotionally disturbed young woman who felt she had no other options. It's too bad no one, including McNair, saw this coming.
---Allen Wilson
