Text messages between McNair and Kazemi was released by police

Nashville police released Monday the text messages between former NFL quarterback Steve McNair and his girl friend Sahel Kazemi, who shot McNair to death and turned gun on herself on July 4. The messages showed that Kazemi asked McNair to transfer money to her bank account.

There were about 50 messages released as part of a case summary and detailed the exchanges between the two hours before the July 4 murder-suicide. Kazemi texted McNair on July 3 to say she was so stressed she might have a breakdown and asked for money to pay cell phone bills. One text said she might need to go to a hospital because she could hardly breathe. And messages from McNair showed that the man who used to wear the NFL jersey had someone transfer the money. Other messages showed that Kazemi asked McNair to stay with him that night and McNair promised to be there.

These text messages from the cell phones of both Kazemi and McNair support the police’s contention that the woman was spiraling out of control. As Spokesman Don Aaron told The Associated Press: “there has been nothing uncovered that suggests this is not a murder-suicide.”

McNair had alcohol in system when he was shot

According to authorities, former NFL star Steve McNair had a blood-alcohol level twice Tennessee’s legal limit for driving when he was shot to death by his girlfriend.

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 twice in the head and twice in the chest July 4 when he was asleep not in packers jersey in a Nashville condo before killing herself.

Li also said that they could not tell from the report how long before McNair’s death he had been drinking.

It was reported that two days before the shooting the girl was arrested for drunken driving in Nashville and she told the officer that she was high, according to police video of the arrest.