According to a report by the Nashville Tennessean, Tennessee state medical examiners conducted autopsies on the bodies of Steve McNair and his mistress Sahel Kazemi, and found gunpowder on Kazemi’s hands from the gun that was found under body at the scene.
Feng Li, the assistant medical examiner who conducted the autopsies, said he will wait for the investigation to be closed before he completes Kazemi’s death certificate to reflect that she died of suicide.
“The results were very consistent in supporting our decision,” Li said.
Gunshot residue and ballistics testing are also consistent with a ruling of murder-suicide, Li said.
“With the lab tests to be obtained combined with the autopsy findings, we will put a final opinion on the death certificate,” Li said.
This essentially all but wraps up the “how,” but the “why” may never been realized. Whether she was upset that McNair wouldn’t leave his wife for her or had some kind of mental deficiencies, we may never know.
What’s sad is that McNair was cheating on his wife and because of it, his four sons don’t have a father anymore. Everyone makes mistakes and I’m not one to preach about someone should live their life, but this is just another situation where people need to realize the full consequences of their actions. I feel for McNair’s wife and her four sons.
Updated: McNair’s shooting has officially been ruled a murder-suicide.
