Life has really not been fair to Oscar Pistorius…After the accident which left him with no legs, one will think he has gotten enough of life’s bad treatment.
But then, a Val’s day surprise by his lovely girlfriend-Reeva Steenkamp which went wrong has landed him in another trouble…How much more can this man take in life?
I really feel sorry for him and the girlfriend’s family…
Read below for more… (Via DailyMail)
South African paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murder and is in custody after reportedly shooting his girlfriend dead in the middle of the night after mistaking her for a burglar.
Gunfire was heard inside his Pretoria mansionat 4am this morning and it is believed his partner may have been killed after a Valentine’s Day surprise went tragically wrong.
The dead woman is Reeva Steenkamp, 30, a former FHM model who had been dating the 26-year-old for two months.
She was shot in the head, the chest and the arm, police have said, and Pistorius will appear in court tomorrow after a hearing scheduled for this afternoon was cancelled.
Pretoria police spokeswoman Denise Beukes confirmed he had been charged with murder, adding they had been called to his home on several occasions since 2011 to deal with ‘allegations of a domestic nature’.
Just yesterday Miss Steenkamp spoke excitedly on Twitter about her plans for Valentine’s Day.
She said: ‘What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow??? #getexcited #ValentinesDay’
Replying to a follower, she later added: ‘That sounds amazing! Wow that’s what it’s all about! It should be a day of love for everyone 🙂 may it be blessed!’
Pistorius, 26, is widely known as the Blade Runner, and has also been dubbed ‘the fastest man on no legs’.
The Johannesburg athlete, who was born without fibulas in his legs and had the limbs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old, had to win a legal battle over his blades with the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 2008 for the right to compete in able-bodied competition.
He was the first double amputee to run in the able-bodied Olympics and reached the 400 semi-finals in London 2012
Pistorius’s father Henke said this afternoon his son was ‘sad’ and a ‘bit emotional’, adding: ‘I don’t know nothing. It will be extremely obnoxious and rude to speculate. I don’t know the facts.
‘If anyone makes a statement, it will have to be Oscar. He’s sad at the moment.’
His agent Peet van Zyl is heading to Pretoria to speak to his client.
‘I hope I can have access to him at the police station,’ he said.
‘Oscar is a humble person and a lovely guy – I’m sure what’s happened has been a terrible mistake but I really don’t have the details at the moment.’
Pretoria police would not confirm the man’s identity until he appears in court, adding a 9mm pistol was recovered from the scene and a case of murder is being investigated.
Officers are still busy with preliminary investigations at the scene, and statements are being taken from neighbours on the luxury Silver Woods estate.
Police say the couple were the only people in the home at the time, there was no sign of forced entry and said the claim that Pistorius had thought his girlfriend was an intruder had not come from them.
In 2009 Pistorius spent a night in police cells after a woman complained to police that he had assaulted her during a party at his house.
The incident allegedly occurred at the same Silver Woods home as where Miss Steenkamp died.
Although Pistorius was charged with assault, he was eventually released with a warning.
At the time, police spokeswoman Sergeant Marinda Stoltz said the victim, whom Pistorius had told to leave, banged and kicked his front door.
‘He (Pistorius) told the girl ‘this is my house and my friends and you have to leave’. He then started closing the door when a wooden beam weighing about 1,5kg fell on her leg and injured her.’
She said the girl reported the incident hours later. ‘The girl then also admitted that she had been drinking,’ said Stoltz.
Homes there are surrounded by a giant wall, with electric fences and armed guards who stop every vehicle leaving or entering to keep it secure in a country with high rates of violent crime.
Around 50 people every day are murdered in South Africa and it is common for people to keep weapons in their home.
In an interview with the Mail before London 2012 it was revealed Pistorius slept with a pistol next to his bed, a machine gun by a window with a cricket bat and baseball bat behind the door.
‘The problem is when the guards are in on the crime. It’s usually safe in guarded estates like this until that happens,’ he said.
In a later piece for the New York Times he took a reporter to the local shooting range to fire his 9mm handgun and two boxes of ammunition.
When the journalist hit the bullseye he said: ‘If you practiced, I think you could be pretty deadly,’ adding he would go shooting ‘sometimes when I can’t sleep’.
Arnu Fourie, Pistorius’s roommate during London 2012 said today: ‘My heart is broken for Oscar’.
‘I feel for Oscar and the girl’s family, I pray for him and her family, I can not imagine how they feel.
‘Poor Oscar in his life had so many disappointments and tough times’.
THATS RATHER UNFORTUNATE. HMMMMMMMMMMMM VALENTINE
awoow…..im so sad……….i tink life has’t been fair to him @ all…………..dear Lord pls com to dis man’s aid……………………..hmmmmmmmmm ewiase ben koraaa ni…aba………..Reeva RIP……..valentine has sent u to early grave ……………may ur soul rest in perfect peace………………u will surely meet ur guy der one day
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This is really sad! In situations like this, it is difficult to know what the truth is. I wish him the best of luck.
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