Phone Records Raise New Questions in Steve McNair’s Death
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↵If you missed Part One of this story, click over to yesterday’s post and watch the video or just read the high points. The video above is Part Two of Armen Keteyian’s investigation for CBS News, which aired this morning.↵↵-- Today’s news focuses on Adrian Gilliam Jr., a 33-year-old man who allegedly sold a gun to Sahel Kazemi, which she would later use on Steve McNair as well as herself. ↵
↵↵-- Much like Monday’s news, CBS finds significant holes in the narrative established by police. While police described the relationship as “happenstance” between Kazemi and Gilliam, phone records obtained by CBS would indicate otherwise. When the network ran a pay-as-you-go cell phone of Gilliam’s against Kazemi’s phone records, his number showed up frequently, including a total of 49 texts and calls on July 3, the last full day Kazemi was alive.↵
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↵-- Gilliam, who did nine years for second-degree murder and attempted armed robbery, told Keteyian a slightly different version of his encounter with Kazemi than he told police. He said he sold the gun to Kazemi on Friday -- not Thursday as he originally told police. It's another detail that calls the timeline into question. When Gilliam spoke with Keteyian, he also said he didn't even remember Kazemi's name or how they met, which seems like a full-blown fabrication given the number of texts and calls between the two.↵
↵↵-- Police say they’re aware of the high level of communication between the two ... but nothing changes the murder-suicide conclusion in their eyes.↵
↵↵CBS did an excellent job of poking holes in this story, today more so than Monday’s piece, and it’s hard not to wonder what else the police omitted and/or botched after seeing what a three-month investigation by the network discovered.↵
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