The Death of McNair Is Hard to Grasp (Update)

I have to say that I am still in shock over the death of Steve McNair. I was at my parents house ready to eat some barbecue and light up some fireworks when my brother first told me about McNair's death. The details surrounding his death since though, is what has been so shocking.

It was first reported that his death was a Murder-Suicide. It was reported that a women approached McNair about a year ago and claimed he slipped a 'roofie' in her drink. A 'roofie' is slang for date-rape drug. And that her boyfriend "was going to kill him." This rumor has not been shot down by police yet.

Then the police finally revealed the identity of the women who was killed along with McNair. Sahel Kazemi a 20-year-old women was found dead along side McNair. She was McNair's girlfriend who had hoped that McNair would divorce from his wife and marry her. There has been rumors that she killed McNair because he wouldn't marry her and then she took her own life.

McNair's wife is now claiming that she never knew about his girlfriend.

Nashville police are saying though that McNair was murdered. He was shot twice in the head and twice in the chest. Kazemi had a single gunshot wound to the head. And that the weapon used in the murders was found underneath Kazemi. The police are not ruling out a Murder-Suicide, but they are also not ruling out homicides. Possibly the jilted boyfriend killed the both of them out of rage.

The details surrounding this case are so puzzling that McNair's death has been hard to grasp. Who killed McNair and this young women? Why they were killed? Is it a murder-suicide? Either way you look at it, "Air" McNair's death is shocking right to the core.

Update: PFT is reporting that these murders could have been professional hits. Florio, who is a former lawyer, thinks that a professional could have killed both McNair and Kazemi and made the crime scene look like a murder-suicide. This case is so bizarre that I wouldn't rule out anything.

Steve McNair's shooting death a homicide, police say (LA Times)

Details shed new light on McNair's death (City Paper)

Girlfriend had hoped to wed McNair (Tennessean)