WSMV-TV in Nashville has done some investigative reporting. The condo complex where McNair and the young woman were found is owned by Charlie Cardwell, a well known Nashville trustee. Cardwell rented this particular unit to Wayne Neely, who is a salesman at Nashville Sporting Goods, a sporting goods company that has been in Nashville for many years. The condo was apparently used for business/entertainment because it was empty for weeks at a time according to Cardwell. Neely let Steve McNair stay at the condo when he came into town to work on his new restaurant Gridiron-9. The restaurant has only been open a few weeks in the Tennessee State University area.
The Tennessean reveals that two days ago McNair’s 2007 Cadillac Escalade was stopped for DUI and police found a 20-year-old woman named Sahel behind the wheel. McNair, if I’m not mistaken, had a previous DUI conviction. The Escalade was towed by police from the condo as part of the investigation.
Police refuse to release the name of the dead woman but if it turns out to be Sahel and it turns out that first reports of a murder-suicide (with the woman being the shooter) are true before the police started talking “double homicide” then the pieces start to fit together.
We may never know what the shooting was about but it may be McNair was pulling a Sanford and the woman was blowing his cover by showing up on the police blotter in his car. That led to a fight which led to... The last part is speculation on my part but also note the police don’t seem particularly interested in looking for suspects, as if they have their story but they just can’t tell it until they complete the investigation. In a high-profile case, the police are smart enough to not say what they can’t prove.