Screams, gunshots heard in Pistorius home

Prosecution witnesses told invetigators they heard screams and gunshots from the house of athlete Oscar Pistorius on the night his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was killed. During the bail hearing of Pistorius on Wednesday, February 20, the prosecution said a witness had testified hearing “non-stop talking like fighting” between 2:00 and 3:00 am on February 14. Another witness said he “heard gunshots, he went to this balcony and saw the light was on. Then he heard a female screaming two-three times, then more gunshots,” chief investigative officer Hilton Botha told the court. This contradicts claims by Pistorius he was asleep until moments before the shooting, and that there was no argument between him and Steenkamp. The BBC reported that based on the judge’s questioning, the magistrate may however grant bail to Pistorius who has denied the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, saying he mistook her for an intruder. Under questioning, Botha said the witness who heard the screams was 600m away then amended it to 300m after a lunch break.

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