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Tenn. police rule McNair's death a homicide

Published 07/05/09

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair's shooting death was a homicide, police said Sunday, but authorities stopped short of saying it was a murder-suicide committed by the 20-year-old girlfriend found dead by his side.

TOP: Baltimore Ravens quarterback Steve McNair fires a pass during an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland in 2007. BOTTOM: McNair, left, is shown in a 2003 season file photo. Sahel Kazemi is shown in an undated booking photo from the Davidson County Sheriff. McNair was found dead Saturday, with multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head. Police said a pistol was discovered near the body of a woman, identified by Nashville police as 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi also shot dead in a downtown condominium. She had a single gunshot wound to the head.
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McNair, 36, was shot four times, twice in the head, by a semiautomatic pistol, Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said. The woman, Sahel Kazemi, was killed by a single gunshot wound and the pistol was found under her body, Aaron said.

Aaron said the two had been in a "dating relationship for past several months."

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