Interesting to note that Nasvhille police have still not confirmed that Sahel Kazemi, the 20-year-old mistress of Steve McNair who was found dead with him on Saturday, was killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Local authorities, after leaning to rule the crime as a murder-suicide, have now seemingly changed their stance on the killings. (Something that comes as zero surprise to me.)
(Photo of Sahel Kazemi inside condo where she and McNair were murdered)
How else can you explain police now telling the TENNESSEAN that an investigation will “take many days of interviews with their families and friends and witnesses who saw the 36-year-old McNair out on the town Friday night before police will rule whether the deaths were a murder-suicide or a double homicide.”
And then there’s this:
It will be weeks before toxicology tests reveal whether either of them had alcohol or drugs in their systems. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and explosives are tracing the gun’s registration to determine whether it belonged to McNair or someone else. McNair is licensed to carry a handgun in Tennessee.
BALONEY. The police will know the results of those toxicology tests in a couple days. Not to mention the gun registration. The local authorities are sandbagging the timeline to get the media off their back in the case. So we’ll forget about it - and allow them to be more effective in the investigation. And that’s fine by me.
There are just so many details of this case that don’t add up. McNair’s friend not calling police for an hour after discovering the bodies. McNair reportedly having his life threatened at a local bar the night before the killings. McNair’s wife saying she hadn’t seen him in two days. (I’m not accusing her of anything by the way.)
(Myspace message of Keith Norfleet, Sahel Kazemi’s ex-boyfriend)
And then there’s Kazemi’s ex-boyfriend Keith Norfleet, who in an interview with the TENNESSEAN, knew intimate details about Kazemi’s relationship with McNair. He also stated that he made a Saturday morning visit to McNair’s condo - but never said why. What the hell?
(Keith Norfleet, Sahel Kazemi’s former longtime boyfriend)
Last night I posted the rather ominous message on Norfleet’s now-private Myspace account. Perhaps even more interesting though is the since-deleted status message of one of Norfleet’s friends on Myspace, “Jett Jackson“. Jackson’s account has since been deleted, but I saved a screen shot of it. Posted after the jump.
Note the date of Jackson’s last login, July 2. The two bodies were reportedly discovered on Saturday, July 4. Just pointing the discrepancy out, not accusing anyone of anything here - yet. You have to believe though that police are interested in Jackson’s Myspace message. Or more specifically, the timing of it.
(Black box covers the word f–k)
From the outset, I never even consider Kazemi as a suspect in McNair’s death. I think there was a third party involved. With all the reported information out there, there’s really no way to definitively conclude that Kazemi murdered McNair and then took her own life.
And now the police, after initially implying this was an open-and-shut murder/suicide, are now they’re saying the investigation into what happen could take weeks or months?
My guess is we’ll have an information embargo from police for the next few weeks, then a bomb will drop and we’ll get a suspect in the what could be two murders. There’s just too much out there to conclude otherwise.
But don’t look for breaking news on this case from the sports media, it clearly can’t get away from the story fast enough. Thank goodness for blogs.
12:47 am on July 6th, 2009
I personally believe that sports media should focus on sports i believe the blogs and newspapers should handle homicide investigations; people watch sports to escape from their problems in the real world; when i watch sportscenter i would rather see highlights then hear the sordid details of a murder case let CNN handle that stuff. Keith Norfleet murdered them I believe it wholeheartedly
12:48 am on July 6th, 2009
Again, EXCELLENT reporting. I hope you can keep digging up info on this, as I too suspect that the bf was the one to pull the trigger.
My take : Jealous ex boyfriend is your guilty man. I do not suspect that Mcnair would go into the condo knowing that she was there (as a witness has testified) if he knew there was a chance for this kind of a confrontation, which he would have to at least suspect. I am suspecting that the ex went into the condo and shot him, and then her. Shooting someone 4 times, twice in the head, shows you have a lot of rage and hate for the man on the receiving end of your blackpowder buffet. He planted the gun underneath her, which is a surprising position for a suicide weapon to be.
Interesting note that the myspace status was posted 2 days before the bodies were discovered by the ex’s friend. In the autopsy report there was no mention that they had been dead for a few days. It did say that they were killed early Saturday morning (Friday evening). I would think that they would be able to determine if they had been there for a while, or if they were recently killed, though I am no forensics specialist. I have heard good points to look for gunpowder residue on the females hands, yet none of this has been mentioned either. If the autopsy can confidently say they were killed Friday evening/Sat morning, it does not clear Keith and Jett, but it does then make it seem either this was premeditated from that date, or that they are obviously still very upset with Mcnair.
I believe that the lag time in reporting the murder is not so fishy however. I believe that Mcnairs co renter of the place (who called his friend to report the murder) did not initially make the call because of the implications of the 20 year old. He was obviously aware of the turmoil in Mcnair’s marriage, and likely consoled in another friend before calling the police. I am sure he said something like “Steve is dead and the 20 year old he is having an affair with is lying next to him, what do we do?” Obviously reporting this was a difficult thing, given the circumstances of the whole thing.
1:08 am on July 6th, 2009
Get on this Jett Jackson character; he has to have some kind of history…
1:36 am on July 6th, 2009
Great Reporting….I’m not one for Conspiracy Theories but this is very fishy to say the least. I can’t figure out why Kazemi would kill her “meal ticket” (no disrespect to McNair but lets be serious here) and then herself. What possible motive does she have? There are so many unanswered questions and rumors floating around, wow. This has to be the most bizarre homicide case I’ve ever witnessed, like straight out of a movie.
1:39 am on July 6th, 2009
This has been discussed elsewhere that you can post a myspace status update and it not consider you to have been logged into your account. McNair was seen late on July 3 early morning July 4(1 am).
I still say murder-suicide.
1:40 am on July 6th, 2009
I should have said post a myspace status update from a mobile device and it not consider you logged into your account.
1:50 am on July 6th, 2009
Pretty girls as a rule don’t shoot themselves, especially in the head…
1:53 am on July 6th, 2009
If this is “zero surprise” to you, why did you run the piece yesterday entitled, “All But Official: McNair’s Death A Murder-Suicide,” which essentially declares it a closed case?
2:01 am on July 6th, 2009
RIP #9. You’re a first ballot HOF’er.
To the cops………find JETT!!! No female looking like this will pull the trigger twice to the head, let alone fire a warning shot.
……and the myspace page is enuf alone to convince some folks. When this gets out in the morning it’s all over. Jett better start growing a beard.
Either you have a real calculating killer out there who knows how to stage the perfect crime, or this is what it’s turning out to be……..just a jealous ex-boyfriend.
Kudo, Brooks!!!
-Tern
“Rangers lead the way!!”
2:07 am on July 6th, 2009
“Zero Surprise” because the article suggested that Tennessee PD was unusually quick to rule it a murder/suicide.
I have heard the theory that you can update your status without signing in. The date and exact time of the status update could then be easily checked by Myspace for investigators. As I mentioned before, it still does not entirely clear Keith Norfleet nor Jett Jackson.
There seems to be more of a motive there than with the mistress. Seeing as Mcnair was shot 4 times, twice in the head, obviously points out there was some VERY bad blood going on somewhere.
I think what everyone wants to know is, “What caused this?”
The motive for someone to commit such a horrible act is what makes this story so interesting. Was it a young girl, starving for the limelight and caught in an affair with an ex-NFL QB and married father of four? Or is it the jealous ex-boyfriend, and the cryptic messages that seemingly proceeded the murder and murder / staged suicide of his ex-girlfriend? Both are interesting story lines, and it makes the story quite compelling.
2:09 am on July 6th, 2009
What is bleeped out? Does it say “f–k a quarterback”?
2:39 am on July 6th, 2009
Before I mention anything, I would like to say that I am not a huge fan of McNair or am I a hater. I am just a fan of football and is saddened to hear the news. It seems that the facts lead to the obvious. The immature girl wanted him for herself, he was telling her that it would happen soon. Not soon enough for her, maybe a few drinks later and an hour of arguing she makes her choice. If any one has dealt with a psycho bitch before they know what I mean. Regardless of what happened, it’s a shame two young people are now dead.
2:52 am on July 6th, 2009
Not pointing fingers here, yet, if the marriage was toasted and their were issues where else can the police look? Remember Fred Lane who was a running back for the Carolina Panthers? His wife married him for his money, mentally abused him and shot him to death. She recently got out of jail. McNair’s wife saying she hadn’t seen him in two days. Yet, there is no discussion about WHAT she knew. Yet, like the Gov of South Carolina disappearing; she had to know something. PLUS his house was on the market… Too many unanswered questions.
3:01 am on July 6th, 2009
“Gunshots always leave residue on victims’ clothing and skin, residue of smoke and unburned propellant that adheres as particulate matter. Also the propellant gases burn the skin around the entrance wound.
Unless, of course, the gun is fired from several feet or more away. This distance depends on caliber and load. And this is critical to both McNair and Kazemi. If McNair’s clothing and skin has very little or no such residue or burns, it’s as close to conclusive as can be that he was not holding the gun that shot him. Even his long arms could not have held a pistol far enough away to escape those muzzle effects.
As for Kazemi, the presence of muzzle effects supports, but does not prove, that she shot herself. Absent them, suicide would be very difficult to support. But even with them, all it shows is that she was shot at close range. But it might have been another’s hand that pulled the trigger.”
3:01 am on July 6th, 2009
definitely not murder/suicide imo,,,the gun was under her body so its only a matter of time that 5-0 gets their idiot criminal….
its most likely either the ex bf or jett but im gonna give u another theory…
i find it interesting that cnn states there was no forced entry. since there was no forced entry the killer was either allowed in or snuck in or the killer knew his way around the condo. it could be his boy, wayne neeley.
why did he wait so long to call somebody when he found the bodies? i dont buy that he didnt want it to get out the fact that mcnair had a side piece. supposedly it was his friend, what would mcnair gain at this point about hiding his side piece? also when cnn 1st reported the story, there was no mention of wat neeley did for a living. but now, they add in “sporting goods dealer, wayne neeley,” why? could it be that with mcnair dead, his memorabilia would rise in value? could all 3 of these guys have been in cahoots? by killing mcnair and the girl, they could all get wat they wanted…jus food for thought
3:19 am on July 6th, 2009
Agree with all that say she didnt do it, the ex bf is involved.
I’ll guess that he grabbed McNair as he was entering the condo that night/morning. Probably at gunpoint and made him open the door, then killed them both, and staged the gun under Kazemi. (which was idiotic, btw) Tack on the dumbass quote he put on his myspace account, and you’ve got motive. This jackass will crumble under the scrutiny.
3:21 am on July 6th, 2009
I am making “jealous boyfriend” the favorite; second choice is “wife hired hitman,” third is “OJ did it” and longshot is “murder-suicide”
4:02 am on July 6th, 2009
I think that the ex- boyfriend had her healed up in the condo, however it go’s down McNair is lead to believe that everything is ok at the condo and enters. As he is in the house he has two guy’s, ex-boyfriend and Jett both holding gun’s towards him forcing him to kneel down, speakin their anger to McNair and forcing her to watch as they execute him. After they speak their anger to her letting her know that this is what messing with a baller get’s you, they execute her as well.
These two guys have what they did posted to their myspace. When you mad at someone that’s what you do post your feelings to your public websites for everyone to know how you feel. If you can’t give the message verbally then you give it webally. When’s the last time she longed in her myspace. Did she get the message and reply back as you ant gone do shit F you. Talking shit on myspace is what’s in now as well as Face Book.
It does not take a rocket scientist to see clear what happen. McNair’s wife had no reason or motive to kill him she could get enough child support and alimony to set her and their kids straight for a while so murder yeah, but suicide HELL NO. WOW I cracked my first case.
4:52 am on July 6th, 2009
i just looked her up on facebok and saw the private profile. and now its gone. it was a picture of the gf and her friend(seems to be the same one in the photo of the condo) very weird though. her profile on myspace has been deleted too.
4:58 am on July 6th, 2009
I am amazed by how many idiots there are in America. It scares me to ponder our constitutional right to “trial by a jury of peers”. If there are this many nincompoops in America, who by the way all fancy themselves as smart and sleuth-like in their thoughts, wow…
First it seemed as a Murder suicide. I still lean towards that one. However, to be a 23 year old loser(and Titans fan) and lose your girl to a millionaire football player has gotta be a hard one to swallow. Im not buying the gun under her body, either. Maybe Keith and the caucasion persuasion(Jett) will have alot of explaining to do. The facts in this case will come out quickly, the forensics tests and the owner of the gun will tell the story.
That Rhesus monkey nose and those thin, lips…I cant imagine being that hard up for chichi that I’d buy her an escalade…have none of these athletes ever heard of call girls? But I obviously will never understand the mentality behing these guys, becaus if I were a 24 year old millionaire QB, Mechelle would Never have gotten me down that isle. 36 yrs old, in shape, virile…too young to have a wife sitting up in a $3M home not giving up the chichi…FUGGEDABOUTIT….but then again, I guess most athletes get married so young cause theyre scared they might get mixed up with a psycho chick who either A) accuses them of rape B) gets them for $10K/mo child support or C) pops a cap in they a@@ for refusing to get married. It’s all trouble…follow Dave Chappelle’s advice and get a Pre-Intercourse agreement.
7:02 am on July 6th, 2009
It could have been a jealous ex-boyfriend or it could have been Sahel - my heart goes out to McNair’s wife and the kids - however, what a selfish thing for McNair -if you no longer wanted to be married then just divorce the wife and live your life. This could have been avoided, McNair should have been home with his wife and children - Sahel was ONLY 20 years old - 16 years his junior - you play with fire and you get burned. Men when are you going to wake up - why throw your married life away, bring embrassement to the wife and kids?Just for a young woman? Mentally there is nothing in common, oh I forgot alot of you don’t think with your “top” head - don’t mean to sound cruel just keeping it real. What a shame for both families. You can tell by her photos - she’s young and having fun, nothing serious at this point, was looking for a meal ticket and someone did not like it or maybe McNair was trying to call it quits and she said I don’t think so. Either way, what a way to be remembered. Very sad for the kids.
8:27 am on July 6th, 2009
This girl had it to good to end it. I read a blog the next morning and the ex-boyfriend stated that Sahel called him the night she got arrested for the DUI to come and pick up the Escalalde since Steve was not able to drive and took a taxi. I would assume that the condo keys were on the same key ring as the escalade; he probable made an extra set of keys for himself, therefore he had access to the condo without forceful entry. I just don’t believe that a 20-year old would have the courage to pound 4 bullets into a man she loves. Someone made this look like a murder suicide; but then how did the gun get underneath her body? The police need to invesitgate the ex and his friend. Also, any chance there are secuirty cameras on the property or at any of the surroundings?
Also not sure about the ex-wife. How do you not know if days go by and you haven’t heard from your spouse. How does he take vacations and you not know? How does he co-sign for a vehicle and you not know? the condo was only 6 miles from their residence, how do you not know?
11:10 am on July 6th, 2009
ya know, to comment on the myspace of jett jackson, and the last login date, if he was still online and hadn’t signed out yet, it would not have changed the date, so it is possible that he was online at the time you copied that page, believe me i know how myspace works. who knows really, but im sure that’s all that was about, he was probably online still and hadn’t logged out yet. as soon as you log out is when it changes the date of the last login.
kay
i think that girl was beautiful, maybe not in her mugshot, but let’s see some mugshots of other women that a f—ed up or drunk in them. im sure they look ugly as well. this is a truely sad story, this girl was lied to a betrayed, but so was his wife i understand. but men that treat women the way he did….its sickening!
he should’ve known better, my bf wrote a poem before even knowing all the details, its kinda scary cause its seems to be true. r.i.p both of them. but all lies/bad things come out and come to an end sooner or later
12:14 pm on July 6th, 2009
Who is the gun registered to? McNair was a gun enthusiast, and supposedly had many. Where would the girl get a gun unless it was McNairs. WHO IS THE MURDER WEAPON REGISTERED TO?
12:16 pm on July 6th, 2009
Wow, you are wonderful with your coverage. I would love an expert out there to confirm for me that if you kill yourself with a hand gun that it is impossible to land on the gun. The police report that the gun was found under Ms. Kazemi. Usually from Nursing School where I learned this is that suicide victims usually still have the weapon in their hand even after falling from a self inflicted fun shot. I seen a video in nursing school where a man shot himself in the mouth and survived. His mouth was disformed after the shooting as though his lips were still formed over the gun. It is something that has always stuck with me. The only way he recovered was from plastic surgery. I hope an expert can clarify the gun being found under Ms. Kazemi. Also the doors being secured???????? Well, whoever was in the house could have kindly secured the house upon leaving. Whoever put that gun under Ms. Kazemi was not very bright. I believe if the cops thought for a second that this was a murder/suicide they would have confirmed that by now. That is common sence. Let me know what you think?
12:40 pm on July 6th, 2009
How are there all those shots fired and no one heard anything? Were these cats using silencers or did the shots just get associated with 4th of July celebrations. Suspects in order
1. The wife - Divorce you get half Death you get all. Hired contract killer
2. The friend - boning mcnairs wife and pops him and the mistress so he can be with mcnairs wife and mcnairs money
3. Mistress x boyfriend and his Friend - Obvious reasons with the myspace account and visit to Mcnairs condo.
4. Business associates - did mcnair have any enemies with his business dealings
5. The woman who threatened his life for supposedly giving her a date rape drug.
The Lifestyle
12:45 pm on July 6th, 2009
Well, if you want insight into who murders and why, read David Buss’s “The Murderer Next Door”. As his (really good) theories apply here, the boyfriend was publicly humiliated, cuckolded, and had just lost the best thing he was likely to get to a higher status male. That has murder written all over it. Statistically speaking, 20 year old females almost never murder, and when they do it’s self defense, with some notable exceptions.
On the other hand, 20-something males murder the most of any age group and most often they murder when a female has or is threatening to leave them.
Buss is a professor spent 7 years “obsessing” over murder (his term) , gaining access to non-public FBI sources, and doing thousands of interviews of ordinary non-criminals using questionnaires asking - have you ever thought about murdering someone? What stopped you? What could have pushed you over the edge? He analyzed the results and found some very clear, and frightening results. The vast majority of people have contemplated murder at one time or another, and for very similar reasons.
He has a well developed and well supported theory of why people murder- what the circumstances are that push a person’s murder button- and why that button is there in the first place- why do those circumstances elicit a murderous response?
It’s really fascinating and edifying; I feel like I now know what not to do in order to avoid being murdered, and I know when someone I care about is engaging in something that might lead to murder.
In a nutshell, McNair was doing just exactly what he shouldn’t be doing and they were both in mortal danger, but they didn’t recognize it.
He also goes into how people have anti-murder instincts and behaviors. For instance, just about the age of two, all toddlers develop a fear of male strangers. This is just at the time they can now crawl away from their mothers and away from their protection. He explains why that is.
I am sure the police are very well aware of the content of that book and how it applies to any given circumstance. Suffice it to say that I don’t follow or care about sports, heard only that a football player named McNair was found dead with a 20-year old girl, he’s shot and she’s shot and police aren’t sure if she’s the perp and on the basis of that I called it this morning to my wife on the way to work. We’ll see if I am right, but it fits the pattern discussed in that book to a tee.
1:03 pm on July 6th, 2009
This is clearly a hit. Even someon like myself who is not involved with law enforcement can see that.
2:12 pm on July 6th, 2009
Reports coming out now on ESPN that police have told relatives of the girl that she had just recently bought a handgun and the gun recovered underneath her is in fact hers. This most likely means she committed this horrible act of violence.
2:29 pm on July 6th, 2009
McNair was strapped for cash. He was selling off a lot of goods in order to front his new restaurant…which was as told funded by some notorious help in MS. Chichi also about to out him (he hated busta’s) as he wanted to break it off. He was talking divorce from O.W. last time we talked but hadnt pulled the plug legally. Wifey is fully aware of his antics and was just covering for her kids.
I only know he was scathing when we spoke. Wanted things to spark down. I know that since the DUI Thurs she was going “a la canona”. He got a call, you just cant stop if ur using like she was. I think after we spoke from here he confronted ‘Lil Pork (pet name) and she spiked. You cant not know that a sidearm who is “chasing the dragon” should not have biscuts in the house. I know I saw Mac’s, K’s, 4 pounda’s, laying around the crib. 5-0 hauled a lot of heat out inside body bag with my stiff friend inside. I did not see any laying when I was allowed to pick up some papers he had yet to sign today.
I tell you…if you saw what I saw you’d be sheeping your manhood if you men arent now. Keep it zipped. Concerning silencer ques…808 was called in. 4th covered up the suspicion. Don’t be a hater, you have no idea what my boy was going through with his wife. Peace and a bowl of Jell-O my dear friend. Cya in heaven. That hoodrat wont bug us there.
2:34 pm on July 6th, 2009
This is crazy- this is evidently Norfleet’s music page:
http://www.soundclick.com/members/default.cfm?member=KaNe+Antioch%27s+Finest
I have no idea if he actually wrote this- or if this was just his music list. I’m not into rap- but I’m sure someone else can figure this out. It seems like he’s the writer/ creator of some of these songs. Look at the song Closed Casket. Creepy. I definitely think Norfleet murdered both McNair and Kazemi. It’s so sad. I’m a huge Steve McNair fan- he really helped our Baltimore Ravens. He was a hero here in Baltimore. RIP Steve McNair..
3:23 pm on July 6th, 2009
ESPN is reporting that she bought the gun so I guess you can rule the boyfriend out.
3:26 pm on July 6th, 2009
Besides Jett Jackson’s myspace being deleted so is Sahel’s…?
4:46 pm on July 6th, 2009
MCNAIR WASN’T NO PUNK.THE EX DID IT AND THAT’S THE END OF THIS MONKEY SH*T….
5:22 pm on July 6th, 2009
look at the ex bf pic in the vince young jersey at the titans game. obviiously at one time that kid loved mcnair, if his girls getting boned by one of his sports heroes, the love turns to hate real quick. i think the ex-bf should be looked at, along with the jett jackson fellow. when the news first came, i assumed it was a hit. but you never know, pussy is the downfall for far too many men.
6:30 pm on July 6th, 2009
A) Goofy white guys just scored one back from OJ in the jilted athlete/ murder series.
B) “There once was a man named Steve.. who told his white mistress to leave… so she pulled out a gun, and before he could run….. she shot him down like you wouldn’t believe”
C) No one is putting forth the very possible theory that McNair shot HER, and then shot himself four times from a distance.
D) Bret Easton Ellis described this sort of woman thusly: “She’ll give birth to a bottle of peach vodka.”
E) Fred and Velma will figure out the mystery, pull the mask off the shootist, and it will be… STEVE MCNAIR! “I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”
6:51 pm on July 6th, 2009
Most likely it was the ‘ho girl friend. One theory, McNair tells her that he is NOT getting that divorce she fantasized about (and he probably encouraged).
Another interesting thought is the fact is the girlfriend is a Muslim and her family is Muslim and this was an “honor killing” by her Muslim relatives (not as uncommon as you might think) in retaliation to McNair for dishonoring their daughter,a nd their daughter for dishonoring their family.
7:07 pm on July 6th, 2009
Great work and writing !! We thought there was way more to this story as well. We have picked up your story on our site : HeyKobe . Keep up the great work !!
7:25 pm on July 6th, 2009
Please read what I wrote above. I think I was the last one to talk to him… I think…I feel so bad for not going with him. I did find something that was odd that the police left. I really dont want to tell you but it might be a piece of the puzzle.
8:09 pm on July 6th, 2009
To Informed One:
Was she waiting at the condo for him? did she have a key?
sounds like lil porky was blowed all the time….lots of 1 on 1 huh?
8:34 pm on July 6th, 2009
Steve McNair A Tarnished Memory?
We all have memories both good and bad,
Visions of our past, some happy, some sad,
Good friends? We like to honor their name,
Wins or loses? It’s much more than a game.
Real fireworks in a condo over the 4th of July,
Downtown Nashville, Tennessee here’s why,
Gunshots ripped the chest, again in the head,
Fired one last time, now two people are dead.
He took quattro plus hers gives a sum total of five,
Didn’t need to be that many for neither to be alive,
An article on the Internet talks about his darker side,
The exact opposite displayed while Steve was alive.
Pillar of the community, loving wife, father or four,
Ah, but as the story unfolds we now so much more,
Pharisees took a girl to Jesus; soon they were alone,
He who is without sin, let them cast the first stone.
We have no idea what it was like to be Air McNair,
People were shocked upon hearing Kazemi was there,
New revelations are popping up like weeds of course,
Were he and Mecheele really going to get a divorce?
Statistics have again have surfaced about Alcorn State,
Records for passing, total offense, a future NFL great,
This father figure with the humble “Pops” nickname,
Death can’t say, “maybe next year” like a football game,
So, now the questions will arise, was he really all that?
Well, that depends if were looking now or looking back,
Steve and his lady friend have paid the ultimate cost,
And it is way more than a one-yard Super Bowl loss.
“Left wideout go deep, slant receiver you go wide,”
Whoever was open, man could he let the pigskin fly,
Should both be covered he’d tuck the ball and run,
His feet were flying when his arm couldn’t be a gun.
Label it a gift or talent, no one wins every single time,
This is not the occasion to let failure occupy our mind,
Yeah! Jesus the only perfect One is never again to be,
Don’t rant on Steve McNair with a tarnished memory.
by Luke Easter
10:10 am on July 7th, 2009
Im not taking anyones side, its a strange story that needs a lot of lookin into, but i know from my own experience that if you update your myspace status via myspace mobile, that it does not change you log in date. the log in date actually changes if you use the computer, not if u use myspace on your phone. so that is what could have happened! or not, just my thought on that!! But he was in the wrong as well as she. She coulda did it or her ex or even maybe his friend could have something to do with it… but i think we just need to let the real investigator figure this one out
12:04 pm on July 7th, 2009
Theory……… She disgraced her family by not only dating outside her race but dating a married man. It was set up to make it look like a murder suicide. A believable murder suicide would be her shooting him because she is so distraught, young and vouluneerable…… Just a thought
1:22 pm on July 7th, 2009
When a person gets shot they dont fly backwards like in the movies. She shot herself with the gun in front of her and fell forward (what really happens) and landed on the gun. The only thing the ex and friend are guilty of is knowing it was going to happen and not telling the police.
4:44 pm on July 7th, 2009
Why don’t you learn to read!!! It says that SHE visited HIS apartment, not the other way around. Those are pretty big details to screw up!
5:20 pm on July 7th, 2009
This entire column is full of inaccuracies.
There is no evidence whatsosever to suggest the police now think the girl was murdered. On the contrary, according to her family, they’re fairly certain she did it.
At no point did the police ever suggest this was was “an open and shut murder/suicide”. Don’t confuse media reporting with the police. The police have jumped through hoops to avoid being specific, repeatedly mentioning that they hadn’t ruled anything out and all possibilities were on the table.
In all likelihood, given the public profile of the case, the police are simply being as thorough as possible before announcing the girl killed McNair and herself. Surely they would love to provide a reason, but we’ll probably never know why it happened, just as with the Chris Benoit case and many other similar ones.
5:29 pm on July 7th, 2009
If you’re going to kill a quarterback, you should use a Shotgun.
6:32 pm on July 7th, 2009
@ Allosaurus Jones - That was just corny enough to be hilarious.
6:42 pm on July 7th, 2009
To all you people claiming someone who “looks this good” wouldn’t shoot themselves in the head, you’re so far from wrong. I went to H.S. with a blonde that was 10 times hotter than this mess, and she blew her brains out 4 yrs after graduation. She wasn’t crazy, she didn’t have a disfiguring accident - she found out her husband was cheating on her (why, i have NO idea - she was too hot to cheat on) and planning on leaving her(again, stupid) and she killed herself.
7:00 pm on July 7th, 2009
She was not muslim. She was Iranian, but her family is B’hai faith…love and the universal brotherhood of all people. Her family escaped Iran because B’hai are arrested and persecuted. An honor killing is most unlikely.
9:10 pm on July 7th, 2009
Katie Marie, that music page is really a damning piece of evidence and convinces me that Norfleet was the one who was screwed up over the breakup with his GF.
That dude is going to JAIL.
I hope Nashville PD has the link.
11:38 pm on July 7th, 2009
Jesus knows. Let this be a lesson for all you men who cheat on your wives. What’s done in the dark will always come to light.
McNair lived a dual life. Integrity simply means that you are who you are when no one is looking. Hopefully all men will stop using women and respect them, and leave the outside women alone, or just simply divorce their wives.
1:59 am on July 8th, 2009
UPDATE: Jett Jackson told police his comments were posted from his phone, after the murders were reported in the news. Supposedly because he posted it from his mobile phone the login wasn’t registered.
Source: http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2009/7/7/who_are_the_other_people_in_the_mcnair_case
6:05 pm on July 8th, 2009
The Jett explanation sounds plausible. If he posted from his phone that accounts from the log-in date, and while the message posted does sound damaging, when read another way, it sounds as if he was expressing no pity for McNair dying, but expressing sympathy for Sahel.
It *could* be an innocent comment.
7:20 pm on July 8th, 2009
We know now she went wacko and shot him. From what I see in those pictures she looked more like a $40.00 hooker and seems she thought she was going to get more out of Steve then Steve was willing to give….like a ring on her finger. He wasn’t going to leave his wife for her. That wouldn’t have been good business for him at all and he knew it.
6:59 pm on July 9th, 2009
Anyone else think her ex BF knows more about this case than he’s told the Nashville PD??
8:48 am on July 20th, 2009
Where did Kazemi learn to shoot like that? Not even one stray bullet? I don’t believe she shot anybody. She bought a gun to protect herself from a crazy ex boyfriend. And if she did have him pick her up after her DUI experience, then the motive the ex has was he wanted to punish McNair for leaving her at the police station to show her how he can protect her. When she let out a cry for her QB lover the ex shot her then too. A message to all players out there, “they are just ho’s. You don’t need to be buying them anything, making them promises or giving them cars. There are a million more waiting in line to take the place of the last one. It’s what ho’s do the world over. And guess what? All ho’s have someone else on the side other than you.”