Slain ex-NFL star's alcohol level was twice legal limit [McNair]

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 20 July 2009 | No Byline

[The Pack Knight]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Authorities say former NFL star Steve McNair had a blood-alcohol level twice Tennessee's legal limit for driving when his girlfriend shot him to death.

Tennessee Assistant Medical Examiner Feng Li said Monday that a toxicology report showed a trace amount of marijuana in the body of Sahel Kazemi. Police say the 20-year-old Kazemi shot McNair July 4 in a Nashville condo before killing herself.

Police say McNair was likely asleep when he was shot twice in the head and twice in the chest. Li said there was no way to tell from the report how long before McNair's death he had been drinking.

Kazemi was arrested for drunken driving in Nashville two days before the shooting. Police video of the arrest showed her telling the officer that she was high.

[The Pack Knight]

I'm posting this mainly because I'm curious about the relevance of Tennessee's legal BAC for driving when McNair wasn't driving.

[Tallguy]

I’m mystified by this report, too. This is the kind of ‘detail’ that should be left out unless it can be proved significant.

[Yorlik803]

Big deal. Cant a man sit at home and get drunk anymore. At least he wasnt driving and killed somebody. But then again, if he did that, he may have gotten that sweetheart deal that one bozo did.

[KarlInOhio]

Are sober people better able to avoid bullets in their sleep?

[exist]

Ok so let me get this straight: Plays in the NFL, almost wins a Superbowl, had a loving wife, had the joy of kids, had the joy of boiking a hottie 20 year crazy chick, and died drunk.

Full life. We should all be so lucky.

[colorado tanker]

I think the relevance is it looks like he got drunk and told his mistress he wasn’t going to divorce his wife and marry her before he passed out, giving her the perfect opportunity to whack him if she was so inclined. She was.

[jerri]

It’s stupid for them to associate it with the legal driving limit since he wasn’t driving. Whoever came up with that is an idiot.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Sooooo, she got him drunk and popped him.

[George from New England]

I’ll bet the alcohol level is part of a plan to support a future claim that he was beating his girlfriend and this was her acting in self defense.

[FreepShop1]

More relevant than his being drunk....was she pregnant?

[paul51]

Full life. We should all be so lucky.

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than being dead

[nkycincinnatikid]

It means, da, da da dum dum dum....
He had it coming , he had it coming, he only had himself to blame, If you a seen him , if you’d a been there, you know that you would’a done the same.

[blam]

"Full life. We should all be so lucky. "

Yup. Paid $130 million to play football (Vick)...chooses to spend it abusing dogs.

Sick.

[secret garden]

He’d been seen drinking at two different bars that night until late and no one knows how he got back to that condo.

[buccaneer81]

It’s stupid for them to associate it with the legal driving limit since he wasn’t driving. Whoever came up with that is an idiot.

It's the MADD mentality.

[jerri]

I’ll bet the alcohol level is part of a plan to support a future claim that he was beating his girlfriend and this was her acting in self defense.

It would be kind of impossible to prove self defense if he was sleeping when he was shot. What would the point of that be anyway, isn't she dead too?

[cripplecreek]

Yeah that was my first thought too and that was just from the headline.

[colorado tanker]

Hell hath no fury . . . .

[Poser]

I hope to be twice the legal limit maybe this Friday night.

[Clara Lou]

Ummmm...he was at home, wasn't he? You can be as drunk as you care to be at home, can't you?