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July 08, 2009

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

Comments

He shoulda knowed better.
Peace, OJ

McNair turns out to be a dirt bag, she turns out to be a gold digger cheating with a married man. I really have no feelings for McNair, we lie in our own beds, the beds we make. He was using her, when she got a DWI, he and his buddy jumped in a cab and took off! Big man McNair was, the key word is "was". What a dirtbag and another young American girl looking for the quick hit.

Come on Allen...if McNair cared about anyone but himself he should have had a clue that something was not right as he was taking advantage of a kid almost half his age and that she was likely a bit unstable for hanging out with a slimmy old married guy like him. I am not saying he served to get shot, but if he stayed home with his wife this would never have happened! Hopefully he had a good life insurance policy to support his wife and 4 kids! From the looks of things, it might be the best "fathering" he ever gave those kids!

After Allens article about McNair being "tough," i look forward to the followup about him being a family cheater and sugardaddy!

There is only one good thing to come from this. There may be a few more guys who think twice about dipping into a side dish. Wacko's abound.

That she was upset that McNair (already married) was seeing "another woman" shows how nuts she was.

Too bad the crazy ones always kill others before they turn the guns on themselves.

Probably when he laughed in her face, and said that he was never leaving his wife -- bang, bang.

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