Nashville, Tennessee police have ruled Steve McNair’s death a homicide, but have not reached a conclusion on Sahel Kazemi, the woman found with him also shot. Read more on McNair and Kazemi deaths below.
Police spokesman, Don Aaron, said McNair, 36, and Sahel Kazemi, 20, had been dating for the past several months. But McNair is actually married to Mechelle McNair, and they have four sons together.
The bodies of Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi were found Saturday afternoon in a condo in downtown Nashville. McNair had four gunshot wounds, two to the head while Kazemi had a single gunshot to the head.
Boh bodies were found in the living room.. McNair on the couch and Kazemi on the floor near him. There was a semiautomatic pistol found under Kazemi’s body. Could this have been a murder suicide?
The police will be conducting more interviews with friends of Kazemi and McNair before they rule her death as a suicide, Aaron said.
Aaron was asked if the deaths could be the result of a lover’s quarrel and stated, “That’s a very important part of the investigation as we work to ultimately classify Miss Kazemi’s death.”
A witness revealed to police that McNair entered the condominium he rented around 1:30 a.am on Saturday. Sahel Kazemi’s Cadillac Escalade was there at the condo when McNair arrived.
Kazemi and McNair were together when Sahel was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in the Escalade early Thursday morning. McNair was in the vehicle but not charged.
Wayne Neeley, a friend and co-renter of the condo, discovered the bodies on Saturday. He arrived at around 1 p.m. and saw McNair on the couch and Kazemi on the floor. He didn’t notice they were dead at first but then found blood near the bodies. He called Robert Gaddy, another friend of McNair’s, and Gaddy called the police.
McNair has played for the Tennessee Titans for 11 years. He retired before the 2008 season after playing two years in Baltimore.
Police stated they were not looking for any suspects and do not believe McNair’s wife is involved. Mechelle McNair, mother of two of his four sons, was expected to collect her husband’s belongings from authorities. Funeral arrangements were not expected to be finalized until Monday afternoon at the earliest.
“She’s still very upset, very distraught,” agent Bus Cook said.
Our condolences to the families.
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