The news that shakes the NFL world comes just in the late afternoon of Independence Day, when Americans are preparing to attend the traditional fireworks. Former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair was found dead in an apartment complex in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. McNair was on the couch, with multiple gunshot wounds in a fatal head and body. On the ground the body of a girl of twenty, Shael Kazemi, killed by a single shot to the head.

 

The murder weapon was next to the woman's body, which police described as "friend" of McNair. To find the two dead, around one o'clock in the afternoon, Wayne Neeley, along with former Pro Bowler coafittuario the apartment, now 36 years old: he saw McNair entered the house on the couch, but did not notice that the two were dead until when it has found traces of blood in the kitchen. A real bolt from the blue for the entire community of Nashville, who considered the former quarterback as a true favorite, but especially for McNair's wife, Mechelle.
McNair's body is taken away from the place of the murder. Ap

INVESTIGATION - Police have now made it clear not to consider Mechelle McNair as a suspect in the double homicide, but there are many questions that investigators will have to respond, including the nature of the relationship between Steve McNair and Shael Kazemi and the possible consequences of what would seem at first glance a sentimental relationship. The murderess, in fact, may have acted out of jealousy just because of the relationship between the two. "Unfortunately at this time we do not have answers - afferrma Don Aaron, spokesman for the Nashville Police Department - we are not able to trace the motive for the double murder, the suspect has just begun.

 

We are interrogating all possible witnesses, and we're beating different tracks. " McNair was seen arriving at the condo around one o'clock in the night between Friday and Saturday, while the car the woman was already in the complex. They were definitely together Thursday night, when Kazemi was stopped by police in Nashville for driving under the influence of alcohol at the wheel of a car which was co-owner McNair. In the passenger seat was his former legend of the Titans, who have been allowed to leave on board a taxi. An autopsy is scheduled for today.

Steve McNair, 1973-2009. 
TITANS IN MOURNING - Steve McNair, convened three times to the Pro Bowl in 2000 drew the Titans to the Super Bowl and led his team in the last action of a match was legendary, with one-yard touchdown of the possible tie. After 11 seasons with the Titans, McNair went to the Ravens in 2006, with whom he played for two years before saying goodbye, because of too many injuries, the football player. "We do not know the details of the affair - says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell - but we are all shocked by this tragedy.

 

We are very close to the families of victims." Incredulous at the news of the death of McNair also the owner of the Titans. "It 's an incredibly sad news - he says Bud Adams - Steve was one of the greatest players of this franchise and certainly one of the most popular athletes from fans in Nashville." Independence Day really is a terrible for Nashville. The capital of country music, who loved Steve McNair, but now wants some answers