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The sister of Sahel Kazemi, the 20-year-old woman found shot dead with former NFL QB Steve McNair on Saturday, 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."
Nashville police have ruled McNair's death a homicide, but have refused to classify Sahemi's death. McNair suffered four gunshot wounds on Saturday, while Sahemi received just one. The gun was discovered underneath her body.
McNair was found sitting on the sofa. Kazemi was lying on the floor.
Disbelief was also building near Kazemi's 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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I'm sorry they both lost their lives but she sounds like a moron.