Steve McNair Murder Update

A Steve McNair death brief….

As I read the Tennessean article describing the events leading to the Saturday shooting of Steve McNair, I could see the writing on the wall. The pair was stopped Thursday night. Sahel Kazemi, who is driving, tells the police she is not drunk, but high. The police arrest her but allow McNair to take a taxi home. Though McNair later bails her out of jail, this is the last straw for the dalliance. Kazemi is 20 and young, too young for McNair. And she gets high – not just buzzed from alcohol – beyond his usual means.

McNair, apparently separated from his wife, is visited by Kazemi, a woman with a wicked past where death is part and parcel of living, kills him, then knowing her life is effectively over, kills herself.

Just after coming to this realization, I read: 

Sometimes, neighbors said, she would arrive home in a limousine in the early morning. They also heard arguments between her and her boyfriend.

Most recently, she had a new black car she said was a gift from her boyfriend.

She was arrested in that car, a black 2007 Cadillac Escalade registered to her and McNair, early Thursday at Broadway and Ninth Avenue, just two days before the deaths. She was charged with driving under the influence and refusing to take a breath test. She told police she was not drunk, but high.

McNair was in the car, a fact that was not in the police affidavit but was confirmed by police Saturday night. Police allowed McNair to take a cab home. He later bailed Kazemi out of jail, according to bail bondsmen….

Keith Norfleet, who said he dated Kazemi for four years before they broke up five months ago, was worried about her dating McNair, a married man. She met McNair while she was a waitress at Dave & Buster’s Grand Sports Cafe, he said.

Norfleet said he moved here with Kazemi from Jacksonville, Fla., where her family lives. She was raised by a sister. Her mother, a native of Iran, was murdered when Kazemi was 9, Norfleet said.

“She is the sweetest girl, and she did not deserve this,” Norfleet said upon learning of her death. “He was making her believe they were going to be together and everything would be perfect.”

 

 

Norfleet said they’d been speaking a lot recently and she planned to break it off with McNair. He said she banged on his apartment door early Saturday morning, but she left before he could get to the door. He spent much of Saturday afternoon looking for her and trying to find out if she was the woman who died with McNair.

Of course Kazemi’s ex-boyfriend is going to defend Kazemi, but the fact remains that somehow she had a gun and she shot Steve McNair four times including twice in the head. Now, she had to be fairly in touch with her faculties to be calculated to make sure she killed McNair. How this Norfleet character called a woman capable of murder and then suicide, “very caring, very loving” is more reaction to to the event than what appears to be reality.

And of course reality is always stranger than fiction ever could be.

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Questions: Was this a murder-suicide? If so, where did Kazemi, who was 20, get the gun? Did she purchase it herself? If so, how, when she was not 21? If this is not ruled a murder-suicide, who is suspected of committing the murder?

Link to another Tennessean article on the deaths.