My McNair Minute

McNair coverage: Cops say Kazemi bought gun
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Police say the gun found at the scene where former NFL star Steve McNair died was bought by his girlfriend less than two days before the two were shot to death.

Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said Monday that 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi bought the semiautomatic handgun Thursday evening from a person he didn't name.

An autopsy showed that McNair and Kazemi died early Saturday. He was shot four times and his death has been ruled a homicide. She was shot once and Aaron said police are still waiting for ballistics and gunpowder-residue tests before deciding if she was slain or committed suicide.

Their bodies were found in a Nashville condominium that overlooks the Tennessee Titans' stadium and was leased by McNair, who was 36.

Aaron said that as far as he knows McNair was not with Kazemi when she got the gun.

Farzin Abdi, a nephew of Kazemi, said earlier Monday he does not believe Kazemi would have killed former Titans quarterback McNair and herself.

"There was no way she was depressed and wanting to do this," he said. "She was so happy. ... She just had it made, you know, [with] this guy taking care of everything."

Just when we thought everything had settled down on the celebrity death front we had something more tragic come along July 4 with the shooting of Steve McNair. While I never was a big Steve McNair fan I will say that he seemed to always be a really though competitor. I guess my most vivid memories were of his battles with the Ravens or when the Titans pulled off the Music City Miracle effectively ending the Bills' standing in the NFL. I also remember seeing highlights of his at Alcorn St. when he was tearing up the record books. It's a damn crazy world.