Unsettling departure
Imagine the humiliation and anger his wife must feel, not to mention what his four sons must be feeling.
The most striking thing about Steve McNair’s death, besides the fact he was shot multiple times, including in the head, was that he was with a woman who wasn’t his wife of 12 years. It’s as if he died caught in the act.
I would never judge his marriage, and he certainly wasn’t the first famous name to screw around (or non-famous name). Perhaps he and his wife even had some sort of agreement — after all, she must have known about his condo in downtown Nashville. Maybe she suffered in silence, choosing to quietly look the other way. Or maybe their marriage was on the rocks. But for a husband and father to go out the way he did, and now the publicity, it adds a sense of contradiction to the pain and shock his family and his fans are going through.
By all accounts, it sounds like a murder-suicide. He and his 20-year-old girlfriend possibly got into a late-night drunken argument, and then she shot him to death and took her own life. Police have stopped short of such a pronouncement, and there has been no word yet about forensics, such as gunpowder residue on the girl’s hands. Whatever happened, it wouldn’t have happened if Steve had been home with his family that night.
To greater or lesser degrees, everyone’s life has its dark alleyways. McNair died in his.
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