ESPN's E:60 examines McNair's legacy with wife, son





Yep will DVR, curious to see how they tackle this
Looks like it's more about the son than Air though
 
At the risk of sounding shallow as hell...Mechelle McNair! Lawd Jesus!!!! It was a joy watching her. She is Niiiiiiiiiceeeeeeee!! What the hell did he see in the chick he was messing with. (SMH)
 
Tiger1 said:
I still have my doubts about how he was killed...
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http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=5347315

Vincent Hill sits at a back table at Demos' Restaurant in downtown Nashville, rubbing a blue highlighter against a stack of papers. He is an ex-cop who still wears Erik Estrada shades, still has a thin blue line coursing through him. He spots two police officers settling in for dinner. He notes that one of the guys is a rookie.

By day, Hill investigates fraud for a credit card company. At night, he pores through police documents and tries to debunk the police's ruling on the McNair case. Roughly a week after the murder, Hill went on Facebook and contacted Kazemi's sisters. He typed something they no doubt were searching to see. He said he didn't think Sahel murdered McNair.

He points to the item in a police report that lists McNair as having only $6 in his pocket when his bloodstained body was found. Hill says he has talked to some of McNair's friends who say the quarterback thought he was broke if he didn't have a couple thousand dollars rolled together in a rubber band in his pocket.

He wonders about inconsistencies in the statements by Adrian Gilliam, the man who sold Kazemi the gun and is serving a 2½-year sentence in a federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gilliam told police that on the night of McNair's murder, he was with his friend Tony Smith, who works at "Bail You Out Bonding." Smith, in a separate police statement, said he wasn't with Gilliam the night of July 3. Gilliam also exchanged numerous texts with Kazemi on July 3, but told police he initially lied to police about his relationship with Kazemi because his fiancée was present in the first interview.

Hill also wonders why Wayne Neely, the friend who found McNair dead in his downtown condo, called at least three people and waited about 45 minutes before a friend eventually called 911.

Don Aaron, a spokesman for the police department, says Nashville PD stands by its investigation, and he offered up Hill's personnel file. It's more than 100 pages long and features the highs and lows of Hill's 4½ years on the force: the reprimands, the commendations, the disciplinary action pending over a high-speed chase and accusations that Hill disobeyed orders.

Hill says that he resigned from the force to spend more time with his daughter and that he isn't doing this to sell books or besmirch his former employer.

"I was a very proactive officer," Hill says. "I wasn't just going in at 7 a.m. til 3 in the afternoon and sitting at Waffle House.

"I think my record speaks for itself."

Hill presented a complaint to a grand jury panel last month requesting that the McNair case be reopened. He says he pulled out a photo of Kazemi holding a puppy and an 8x10 picture of McNair in a barbecue apron, smiling proudly in front of his grill. He says he told the panel they're why he's here.

A few days later, Hill was informed that there was not enough new evidence to reopen the case. It was the news that the Nashville Police Department expected to hear, and it confirmed the result of what Chief Steve Anderson described as hundreds of hours devoted to solving the case.

"Without any doubt," Anderson said in a statement, "I remain confident in the murder-suicide conclusion."

But a year later, Kazemi's family and friends refuse to believe she would shoot someone, let alone kill herself. Andrews says guns "kind of wigged her out." And questions linger in unlikely places. Cotina Feazell, McNair's high school sweetheart and the mother of his first child, Steve Jr., says she wants the case reopened.

"I can't see how Kazemi did this perfect shooting, for one thing," she says, "first time using a gun. I think there's much missing in this case."
 
Journalist said:
I know I shouldn’t feel this way ...

But there is a bit of anger in me for Steve dying, just like I have a little anger with Bobby Phills dying.

Them dudes had sooooooo much to give. It still hurts.
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Dude who you telling.
 
I knew Steve a little as everyone did who went to alcorn at that time. He was a cool dude. I lived in Chattanooga while he was balling and ran into a few times. Same dude, showed love b/c we were alcornites. Had his alcorn crew with him who I assume managed things and tried to make sure things stayed cool. Mechelle said he was a giver in the story and that rings true. The official story of his death is plausible but not likely to me. I think that there are a lot of possible scenarios that I won't name because I have no interest in publicly speculating. What I do believe is that those that loved him probably know what's true and what isn't. People talk, & in a city the size of Nashville, secrets don't generally stay secret. Fred, his sister, his boys that were with him in Nashville, former teammates likely have learned all they wanted to about the circumstances surrounding his death about what's true and what isn't.
 
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