# Steve McNair is dead?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 4, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-mcnair-is-dead/501921 "2009-07-04T20:32:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-mcnair-is-dead/501921/41 "2009-07-09T05:39:26Z")

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> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> I’m kind of surprised the police kept saying she had no motive. I’ve seen new items saying McNair’s wife had no idea about the affair. Motivation is he lied to her about leaving his wife (or at least she thinks he did) and then kills him in a fit of rage maybe when he tells her it’s over. After she realizes what shes done and kills herself. Can’t be the first time that’s ever happened.

Not sure where you are getting that.

> **[Police: Shootings a murder-suicide](https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=4313821)**
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> Police in Nashville are confirming that ex-NFL star Steve McNair's 20-year-old girlfriend killed him before turning the gun on herself.

The police seem unusually willing to offer speculation about the girls motive and state of mind. They’ve pretty openly said that the suspected motive is her frustration and depression over financial troubles (probably exasperated by the DUI) and the rumor that McNair was having an affair with a different woman and intended to end things with her.

I’ve seen very little that indicates that McNair ever said anything about leaving his wife aside from the story that Kazemi told her parents, which is of dubious quality.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-mcnair-is-dead/501921/42 "2009-07-09T08:26:13Z")

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I was just speculating, and meant that there are any number of “motivations” that are plausible in a case like this. If the forensics fit, the motive is irrelevant. Hard to imagine what goes through someones mind when they’re committing an act most find unfathomable.

Sorry if I implied I had an inside scoop on that. I don’t.

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**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-mcnair-is-dead/501921/43 "2009-07-10T18:28:15Z")

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That motive seems a little less likely since it’s been released that he was sleeping when she shot him. Clearly any discussion they had that day did not involve breaking up, otherwise he probably wouldn’t have been sleeping there.

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