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Conn. man was on a 'suicide mission,' cops say

updated 10:26 a.m. ET March 21, 2007

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A teacher accused of having sex with a former student who was shot to death outside her home tried to commit suicide five days later with a drug overdose, Nashville police said.

Nashville’s 911 call center was contacted on March 15 by a Knoxville police officer, who said Erin McLean’s family there believed she had taken an overdose.

Paramedics and a Nashville officer went to the home where McLean was staying and reported that it appeared she had attempted to commit suicide with prescription drugs, police spokeswoman Kristin Mumford said.

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Mumford said McLean was taken to a Nashville hospital and later released.

The teacher’s husband, Eric McLean, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Sean Powell outside the McLeans’ home March 10. Powell was a former student at West High School in Knoxville, where Erin McLean was a teaching intern.

Eric McLean’s relatives say Erin McLean was having a romantic relationship with the teenager.