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Report: NFL QB McNair shot to death

July 4, 2009

Nashville media outlets are reporting that former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair and a 20-year-old woman have been found dead in downtown Nashville.

They died of apparent gunshots wounds and were found behind a market owned by Metro Trustee Charlie Cardwell, near the old General Hospital on Rolling Mill Hill.

While details are sketchy at this time, NashvillePost.com sources say that the scene was either a murder/suicide or made to look like a murder/suicide.

McNair is survived by a son, Steve, Jr., a senior in high school.

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