Metro Nashville Police gave new details Saturday night concerning the violent death of former Titans' QB Steve McNair. All signs point to a murder suicide - McNair being the victim. Police say he was shot more than once. The woman with him at the time, 20 year old Sahel Kazemi, was shot once and a gun was found near her.
A bizarre coincidence was revealed at the police press conference Saturday night. Sahel Kazemi was arrested for DUI early Thursday morning after police saw her speeding at 12th and Broadway in Nashville. McNair was with her. The truck was co-owned by McNair and Sahel Kazemi. In 2003, McNair was arrested for DUI at 12th and Broadway. In that case, a loaded gun was also found in McNair's SUV. The same Metro Nashville officer made both arrests, some 6 years apart.
Police towed a 2007 Cadillac Escalade from the scene Saturday in connection with McNair and Sahel Kazemi's death. It might have been the SUV pictured here, in a photo I took this afternoon at the scene. The truck was parked right outside the door to the condominum where the deaths occurred.
With the police "leaning" in the direction of a murder-suicide pending autopsies to be conducted Sunday morning, we are left to wonder what trouble led up to the killing Saturday. Certainly the arrest could have had something to do with it.
If this 20 year old woman did in fact shoot Steve McNair and then herself, a lot of questions remain. What was the relationship between the two? And how did it go so terribly wrong that it ended this way?
