((HT: Tennessean/Kate Howard))
The sister of Sahel Kazemi ((pictured, thanks Tennessean/family photo)) says she was a young woman who wanted to have fun and couldn't have hurt anyone - not herself, nor anyone else.
Kazemi was actually the aunt of Sepideh Salmani, but they were raised as sisters. Salmani's mother adopted her when she was 9, after Kazemi's mother was killed in their native Iran. Salmani talked to her sister every day, and said she was very happy in her relationship with Steve McNair.
She doesn't believe her sister killed McNair, or herself.
"She was one, young girl who had so many dreams that they never came true," Salmani said. "She would never kill anyone, ever. Or anything. Not even a little bug. I want people to know that."
An autopsy has been ongoing this morning. A press conference is scheduled this afternoon to discuss the findings.
Metro police have said that McNair was found sitting on the sofa, shot several times. Kazemi was lying on the floor with a single gunshot to the head and a pistol near her body.
Disbelief was also building near Kazemi's Hermitage home, where police were interviewing neighbors Saturday.
Regan Howard said when Kazemi first became her neighbor, she didn't know if it was Kazemi or McNair who moved in since he was there so much.
"She was such a nice girl," Howard said. "I can't believe she would do that."
When McNair got her the Escalade, Howard said, she had to help her figure out how to use the remote starter.
Salmani said she talked to her sister nearly every day, and that she'd been hearing about McNair for several months, since he started coming to Dave & Busters and chatting her up.
"He started to talk to her a little," Salmani said. "They exchanged phone numbers, and started dating from there."
Kazemi told her sister that McNair was in the process of divorcing.
"That's why she was like, 'OK, now you're divorcing. We can date,'" Salmani said. "He told her, it was going to be finished, the whole divorce was going to be done, two weeks from yesterday."
Although a check of Davidson County's court records shows there is no divorce pending — at least in Nashville — McNair's house is for sale. His wife, Mechelle McNair, hasn't spoken to the media. Police said she is distraught over his death.
Salmani said her sister believed that she and McNair would move in together once the divorce was final, and eventually marry.
"All she was trying to do was have fun," Salmani said. "Nothing else. I believe there is a third person involved."
Kazemi first came to Nashville nearly four years ago with her then-boyfriend, Keith Norfleet. They broke up about five months ago, and she started seeing McNair soon after.
She probably didn't know who McNair was, Salmani said, until her colleagues at the restaurant told her. Salmani now fears McNair was using her sister, because she was a young woman with a pretty face. She fears jealous people in his life are the reason her sister is dead, and won't live out her dreams.
Her greatest dream, Salmani said, was to be famous.
"I think she is now," she said. "She is everywhere."
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hockeychick23 said July 05, 2009
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BowlBound replied July 06, 2009
myopinion said July 06, 2009
would have been bullet holes every where if she was the shooter, not buying it, Secondly her family said she purchased a gun,I would start with her father, uncles, brothers ect. Some men from the middle east think nothing of taking out a wife, sister, daughter, mother if they feel the have brought shame to the family. She was 22 and he much older, not of middle east decent and above all bedding down with a married man. I'm guessing that there was unhappy men in her family. If she really did purchase the gun, I hope she shared that info with a friend ,I would not just take the family's word for it.
BowlBound replied July 07, 2009
03111963denise said July 06, 2009
First, it is a sad situation for both familes of the deceased. Some
athletes thinks they can sleep around and commit adultry and not get in trouble. He probably was meeting all her wants the money, cars, home, trips,sexual relations etc; and he got caught up. Mr. McNair should not have been cheating it is wrong.I hate it so much especially for his wife that did not know and his children.
No matter who you are or what profession you are in, if you comitt a sin,(lying, cheating,adultry,fornication, gossiping, stealing,etc); you will surely pay the price and I am not talking about with money.
I am waitng as well as others to hear the outcome of the investigation.
BowlBound said July 06, 2009