Before we can spend time mourning a celebrity, or appreciating their life’s work, we obsess over the circumstances of their death, especially if they were as young as Steve McNair. Now at least we can put one question to rest.
Police are set to announce today that McNair was killed by 20-year old Sahel “Jenny” Kazemi, who then turned the pistol on herself. Once the autopsies are completed, they’ll officially be able to classify the deaths. But it’s clear already.
McNair was found yesterday morning with multiple gunshot wounds. His companion, Kazemi, had a single gunshot wound to the head, and the murder weapon was found next to her body. From that alone, the first cop on the scene was probably able to call it.
A spokesman for the Nashville police said they are not actively looking for suspects, and that they’ll make their conclusions later today after autopsies are performed. So they’ve made up their minds already.
It’s dangerous for a professional athlete to mess around, like McNair was likely doing with a 20-year-old girl he met waitressing at Dave & Buster’s. There’s disease, there’s divorce (Mechelle McNair hadn’t seen her husband in two days before Saturday), and the omnipresent danger of the psycho girlfriend. Hopefully this will cause other athletes to take a look at the people they hang around with. They feel invincible on the field, but that doesn’t carry over to their personal life.
Murder-suicides are an intensely selfish act - it says, essentially, “if I can’t have you, no one can.” - but it seems somehow ever more selfish when the victim is such a public figure, beloved by a community. McNair wasn’t just taken away from his family; this weekend, all of Nashville is mourning.
11:43 am on July 5th, 2009
Any stats on how many murder suicides are carried out by women? Was she trained in firearm use? Just want to close loose ends that could make a reasonable case that she was forced to watch this and then was shot by somebody forcing her hand on the gun, etc, etc.
1:09 pm on July 5th, 2009
and she ain’t even cute.
2:01 pm on July 5th, 2009
no kidding, at least the hooker could be hot, this girl just looks scary to begin with
3:14 pm on July 5th, 2009
She was cute but he just needed the dopamine he was missing from the field. He must have been a good lay.
4:03 pm on July 5th, 2009
Can’t wait until this turns out to be ruled a double-murder, and maybe you’ll think twice before jumping to conclusions next time, Brooksy.
6:57 pm on July 5th, 2009
At least Kobe Bean had the good sense to rape a hot blond teenager. McNair went the nasty Iranian Dave N’ Busters waitress route. He’s dumber than he looks!! He may be the one QB more stupid than Vince Young. Bad times.
11:53 pm on July 5th, 2009
The gun that killed both McNair and Kazemi was *not* found ‘next to’ her body. It was discovered *under* her body. The question no one has answered yet is did Kazemi have gunshot residue on her hand and clothing? If so, that would most likely say she killed him and herself. If not, then it would be a strong likelihood of a third party having been involved.
5:03 pm on July 6th, 2009
“At least Kobe Bean had the good sense to rape a hot blond teenager. ”
Hilarious stuff, Cornalicious… you seem like you might be pretty repulsive.
6:31 pm on July 8th, 2009
i jst wat a married man wit a gud lukin wife n lubly kids be doin wt a waitress….hilarious