Shocking: Steve “Air” McNair Shot Dead In Nashville
July 4th, 2009 at 6:40 pm by BrianI haven’t had a minute to process this yet but short of a nuclear attack on Hawaii this is about the worst news someone from Tennessee could expect to hear today.
The pair died of apparent gunshots wounds and were found in an apartment near the old General Hospital on Rolling Mill Hill. The woman, sources say, was approximately 20 years of age.
While details are sketchy at this time, NashvillePost.com sources say that the scene could be double homicide, a murder/suicide, or made to look like a murder/suicide. Metro Police said they have identified the woman, but are not releasing her name until the family has been notified.
What’s certain is that the unnamed woman at the scene is not his wife which opens a range of possibilities to the motive but it’s no excuse. If your spouse or girlfriend is cheating on you then get a divorce. If they ruin your life for what they did to you why let them ruin the rest of your life by going to jail over it?
That’s not speculating on what’s happened. No one knows what that is yet. But if the motive was not money then that narrows it down.
Naturally, many of our liberal friends are rushing to comment on this story as an example of how legal gun owners being allowed to carry their weapons into a restaurant is the same thing as someone either breaking in or being invited into McNair’s residence and shooting him dead.
Not quite the point, fellas. The point is that this city has gotten so dangerous under Chief Ronal Serpas’ Reign of Error that we have to maintain the right to defend ourselves. We have a meter maid at police chief who would rather harass people going 6 miles over the speed limit than putting the serious criminals away and no one can dispute that.
It’s a note I’ve been playing for quite some time.
Either way, it’s a sad day for the McNair Family, the city, the state, the sport and I hope they bring the person or people who did this to justice.
UPDATE: Murder suicide. Crazy bitch took a DUI rap two days ago and celebrated having her license being revoked for six months by killing McNair and then herself. How much does six months worth of taxis cost?
The young woman, Sahel Kazemi, was arrested just before 2 a.m. Thursday after an officer spotted her speeding down Broadway. Kazemi was driving a black, 2007 Cadillac Escalade that, according to public records, she owned along with McNair. McNair was in the vehicle at the time Kazemi was pulled over; however, he was not charged with anything and was allowed to leave. He left in a taxi.
The vehicle is registered at the address of McNair’s restaurant on Jefferson Street.
Going to Dave and Busters makes me want to shoot myself too but not enough to take somebody with me.
This incident is enough to give strange a bad name. Remember that when you go home and kiss your wives at night.
Regardless of this marital infidelity, McNair comported himself with grace on and off the field and deserved a better ending than the one served up ice cold by this Opry Mills bimbo.
It’s all over now except for the funeral and the family that has to go on without a father.
Curiouser and curiouser: McNair had a death threat made against him by a woman claiming he slipped her a roofie some time last year and that her boyfriend was going to kill him at the Blue Moon restaurant in Rock Harbor early yesterday morning.
IRONY WATCH: For those people concerned about guns in restaurants, don’t you find it the least bit ironic that McNair was shot by someone who worked at a restaurant? Based on the broad brush you use to paint patrons, maybe people need to protect themselves from the staff.
COINCIDENCE AND ONE LAST QUESTION: The arresting officer from the Kazemi/McNair DUI stop from this last Thursday is the same one who arrested McNair previously for DUI. Talk about a small town. The thing that’s getting me here is that Kazemi admitted she was high at the stop and it is still a crime for someone to be riding with someone that they know to be intoxicated yet no charge was filed against McNair at the time and he was allowed to leave by taxi.
According to the arrest affidavit, Kazemi’s “eyes were bloodshot and watery. She had an obvious odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her breath but denied any consumption.” According to the police report, “She said she was not drunk but high.”
Would that have happened had the officer in question not been browbeaten by McNair’s attorney and a sympathetic judge who also threw out the gun charge as “fruit of the forbidden tree” in that same stop. Indeed, he was suspended following the first arrest. I’d forgotten that McNair had been charged with that exact offense two years ago.
But not this time. Why?
July 4th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Thanks for covering that, Bmac. Despite the DUI, I thought McNair was one of the decent guys in the NFL. I suppose we’ll find out what happened eventually, but this is tragic no matter what.
July 5th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Sorry for my original grammar in that post. It was being updated throughout the evening as my 4th of July cookout turned into the party scene from Weird Science.
July 5th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
As the outsider here, let me offer a perhaps distasteful note to this…
When will the pro athlete ever learn to stay away from the hoochies?
The hoochie hunt can cost you your marriage, your children, millions of dollars…and possibly your life.
Steve McNair was living an All-American dream, but he had to throw it all away for the 20-year-old piece of ass. He’s nowhere near the first athlete to go down this road, and unfortunately will not be the last:
http://thisgoesto11.blogspot.com/2008/09/when-will-pro-athletes-ever-learn.html
Mean and unfair to call the dead girl a “hoochie”? Hell no. She knew full well McNair was married. This is looking like she was looking to use her “femininity” to trap McNair. Dude had bought her a freakin’ Escalade…
RIP Steve. Hopefully your untimely death will dissuade one of your fellow married pro athletes from cruising for hot young poon, but I know we will be reading another story like this in the future…
July 6th, 2009 at 2:34 am
He who giveth the Escalade can taketh away.
If my timeline and news reports are correct, she would have gotten bailed out from jail and he was still out running around at Blue Moon and a Division Street bar called Losers.
So, on the jealous girlfriend ranking system:
a) Took the DUI rap by driving for his favor;
b) Did the crime, did the time
c) Got bonded out
d) Came home and he’s still out running around instead of waiting on the couch to pat your hand and tell you everything’s going to be alright.
e) The possibility that a private adulterous relationship would have been getting “too hot” and need to break it off for a while if you are at the scene of the crime with a drunk or high girl in a vehicle registered in both of your names (who is also under 21 and is somehow not violating the booze laws). Hello, grounds for divorce and half of everything.
Where does that leave you if you’re the girl and face that ultimatum? One second you’re going parasailing, rocking the G-Ride, rent paid, and dating the millionaire Capt. of the football team. Everybody knows you and you and wants to be around you because of them. The next, you’re dumped on the curb and are nothing but a waitress at a loud, crappy sports bar while the guy who’s been laying up with you for a long while goes back to his wife who has no problem with him spending his nights elsewhere.
Initial reports are that the door was locked when the roommate arrived so, the crazies (i.e., my baby ain’t never done nothing to nobody) who want to interject a third person into this scenario have to make us believe that:
a) This unknown non-robbery related 3rd party shot Kazemi first while McNair did nothing, no struggle ensued and did not run;
b) Shot McNair first and Kazemi did nothing and did not run;
c) Planted the gun under her body and locked the door behind them.
Tests of gun powder residue on the hands and clothes would tell you who fired the gun and how close it was to them when it went off.
Regardless, a lot of people were winking and nodding to a situation that led to a crime of passion.
July 6th, 2009 at 11:15 am
You called it, Brian. Via Hot Air:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/06/new-york-daily-news-blames-gun-culture-for-mcnair-murder/
Lupica blames a “gun culture”. I maintain that if McNair had been at home with his wife and kids, he’d still be alive.
Just sayin’…
July 6th, 2009 at 11:56 am
They can’t resist. Nothing is ever anybody’s fault. Except Bush’s.
Somebody shoots somebody? That’s the gun’s fault!
Somebody overdoses on prescription medication they doctor-shopped around for? It’s the doctor’s fault! It’s the pill’s fault!
Eat too much? It’s the company’s fault for making food so delicious!
Unemployment rate is somewhere between 10-18%? Awww, that’s Bush’s fault.