She did wrote:
"How many of your girlfriends or wives lock the bathroom door when they go during the middle of the night?"
Yah it seems unlikely she'd lock the door unless that was her habit. It's also possible she locked the door in response to OP yelling that there may be an intruder.
Some women are classy enough that they always want the bathroom door locked when they use the toilet.
And, be clear, this bathroom had a toilet with a private door, inside the bathroom.
Too afraid to switch on a light? presumably because he didn't want to attract the attention of the intruder
but he was willing to "yell out" to Reeva and the intruder?
I don't know, maybe trying to apply logic to a persons behavior under that kind of stress is not appropriate. If the stories about crime and violence in SA are true and rich/white people are often victims, then again, it makes it difficult for someone outside of that to judge how he reacted. His story sounds somewhat plausible.
Have any possible motives been discussed? She tweeted about Valentines day and bought him a gift, so that would indicate that she was happy with their relationship. Outside of her cheating on him or dumping him, what would potentially cause him to chase her into the bathroom and coldly gun her down through the door?
And if she was running from him because he was threatening her with a weapon, why the hell would she run to the bathroom and lock herself in instead of heading for the front door? Neighbors reported hearing disturbances earlier in the night, did they hear any screams before the shots fired?
Nothing about this makes sense either way.
If you have robot legs, why would you try to break down a door with a cricket bat? Just kick the thing open
...really? wrote:
no taste in music wrote:I was commenting on the OJ story only; I believed early on that he was guilty, and that he was also framed, and that he would probably be found "not guilty" because the police worked at framing him.
With this Oscar story...
He's either flat out guilty...previous issues with domestic violence, threatening people, gun nut, maybe roid rage. Maybe took an Ambien...it all went bad...
Or...he was a gun nut, paranoid due to high break in rate and high crime rate in his country, insecure due to his need of prosthetics, overly into "home protection" and guns...woke up, not drowsey, panicked, and set off a whole series of tragic events. I've gotten out of bed and thought my girlfriend was in it when she wasn't. I've walked in on her in the bathroom when she normally locks the door...when she had, but in her half awake state, hadn't clicked the door shut. He could have assumed that he called out to her in the dark, and that she was calling the police in the bed room, while he went to protect her/them with the guy...went into the bathroom having yelled for the intruder to get out, and found the privy door shut and assumed burglar was hiding in there...and in some screwed up state of fear, fired into the door 4 times...clearly he wanted what was in that privy taken out if not dead...
So either that all holds up as a horrible tragedy...
Or...once he had fired those shots...be woke up from his rage...and realized what he had done and tried to break in the privy and save her.
It's a horrible tragic situation anyway you look at it.
I just hope LRC won't pimp it for ratings forever until he is freed or sentenced. But it way down on the bottom of the front page after a while.
It no longer really had anything much to do with running, and will have less so ever day...
The problem with that was that OJ was BOTH framed, AND guilty.
Meant to say *if instead of is. Anyways, I know you're probably trolling, but others are so quick to either go to his defense and automatically assumes he's innocent or vice versa. You weren't there. Neither was I. It's a news story, so obviously not everything is always going to be 100%, but how do they prosecutors know for sure he was on prosthetics when he shot the 4 bullets through the door? Please don't assume that everything I'm saying I believe to be 100% accurate, I'm not ignorant. The only way to find out what really happened is to remain open to every scenario and see which one best fits the evidence presented....
Even if what OP says is 100% true, he is still fully responsible for this young ladies death as he was wildly negligent for firing four bullets through a closed door before ascertaining who was behind it. No matter the real story... accident, 'roid rage, lover's quarrel turned violent, he should go to prison. To offer his fear and paranoia as an excuse for her death is a bit sickening, almost as if she was partially responsible because she got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. She was an invited guest in his home, and (again, assuming what he says is true), she was doing nothing out of the ordinary. She didn't sneak into his house unannounced. According to OP, the toilet is in a smaller, separate room inside the bathroom. Why would an intruder climb in the window, then enter the smaller room where the toilet is and lock the door? And if he is as fearful of intruders as he claims to be and feels especially vulnerable because of his limited mobility, then I would think he would have those ladders brought inside prior to going to bed. I also thought it interesting that between OP getting up to get a fan and Reeva going to the bathroom, neither turned on a light, although he described the bedroom as "pitch black."
Also, those questioning why she locked the door. If he yelled "get out of my house" she would have no way of knowing at whom or where he was yelling. She hears this, locks the door and doesn't respond because shes scared shitless now too. She may have assumed he knew she was in the bathroom and came in the room to protect her.
If she was assaulted with the cricket bat, her injuries will show it and its all over for OP. But again, she would be screaming knowing her life was in danger and would not have run to hide in the bathroom. If he broke open the door with it, that could easily explain the blood as the room on the other side would be covered in it.
marty mcfeester wrote:
Even if what OP says is 100% true, he is still fully responsible for this young ladies death as he was wildly negligent for firing four bullets through a closed door before ascertaining who was behind it. No matter the real story... accident, 'roid rage, lover's quarrel turned violent, he should go to prison. To offer his fear and paranoia as an excuse for her death is a bit sickening, almost as if she was partially responsible because she got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. She was an invited guest in his home, and (again, assuming what he says is true), she was doing nothing out of the ordinary. She didn't sneak into his house unannounced. According to OP, the toilet is in a smaller, separate room inside the bathroom. Why would an intruder climb in the window, then enter the smaller room where the toilet is and lock the door? And if he is as fearful of intruders as he claims to be and feels especially vulnerable because of his limited mobility, then I would think he would have those ladders brought inside prior to going to bed. I also thought it interesting that between OP getting up to get a fan and Reeva going to the bathroom, neither turned on a light, although he described the bedroom as "pitch black."
Ever lived in S. Africa?
Ever seen the lay out of his place?
It might well have been a perfect storm.
There are probably many details yet to come out.
16.12 It filled me with horror and fear of an intruder or intruders being inside the toilet. I thought he or they must have entered through the unprotected window.
As I did not have my prosthetic legs on and felt extremely vulnerable, I knew I had to protect Reeva and myself. I BELIEVED THAT WHEN THE INTRUDER/S CAME OUT OF THE TOILET WE WOULD BE IN GRAVE DANGER. I felt trapped as my bedroom door was locked and I have limited mobility on my stumps.
16.13 I fired shots at the toilet door and shouted to Reeva to phone the police. She did not respond and I moved backwards out of the bathroom, keeping my eyes on the bathroom entrance. Everything was pitch dark in the bedroom and I was still too scared to switch on a light. Reeva was not responding.
16.14 When I reached the bed, I realised that Reeva was not in bed. That is when it dawned on me that it could have been Reeva who was in the toilet. I returned to the bathroom calling her name. I tried to open the toilet door but it was locked.
In OP's version:
not good for OP, he believed when the intruder came out he would be in grave danger, but fired before that
called out to Reeva AFTER firing, she never had a chance
things NOT in this affidavit:
- denial of any fight verbal or otherwise earlier in evening
- statement about alcohol or drug use earlier in evening
- denial or explanation of noise complaint at 1:30a.m. by neighbors
one thing I find very odd is that he "found" the "key" to the bathroom on the floor, perhaps this is something commons in South Africa, but I have never heard of a key lock for a private master bath in a master bedroom
I have only an opinion and no onmiprescient idea of what the truth is here, but it is interesting to note that you could read OP's affidavit almost as a contrived response as follows:
Evidence OP is worried about Affidavit Response
shot his girl shot intruder
domestic strife we were in love
bloody cricket bat admit i touched it and used it to save her
what neighbors heard i yelled help on balcony
did not call 911 i called my lawyer and asked him to call 911
i fired 4 shots i was scared
i fired at unknown i have been victim of violence before
no one else does this w/o prosthetics, ok to shoot first
WHAT DID OSCAR HAVE TO GAIN BY KILLING HER??? IF HE PURPOSELY SHOT HER MULTIPLE TIMES.
BESIDES MEDIA ATTENTION...
What could she have done to piss him off so badly that he would want to shoot her???
stick with eharmony wrote:
I see how it is this thread stays but others go because it wejo's.
wejo you're a piece of sh*t
Thanks. I haven't removed an Oscar thread today. Rojo starte this thread. He is a different person than me.
The moderators likely are trying to prevent there from being 10 Oscar threads on roughly the same thing. If you want to start a thread on a different angle of this, go ahead, say so as such in the first post and email me the link and I'll make sure it stays.
a killer & a lier wrote:
was his gf in the bathroom ALSO with the light our?!
anyway, forensic ballistics, a common practice now by police in crime investigation involving shooting, should be able to decide if he lied. It should all line up well from where he held the gun (didn't wear his prosthetic), to the gun holes on the bathroom door thru the girl's head wounds.
So 1) if he shot from his stumps you think that automatically means he's innocent?
If he's got a gun out, stumps or no stumps, she easily could flee into the bathroom and he follows her and murders her.
The trial should be interesting to say the least.
wejo wrote:
a killer & a lier wrote:was his gf in the bathroom ALSO with the light our?!
anyway, forensic ballistics, a common practice now by police in crime investigation involving shooting, should be able to decide if he lied. It should all line up well from where he held the gun (didn't wear his prosthetic), to the gun holes on the bathroom door thru the girl's head wounds.
So 1) if he shot from his stumps you think that automatically means he's innocent?
If he's got a gun out, stumps or no stumps, she easily could flee into the bathroom and he follows her and murders her.
The trial should be interesting to say the least.
It won't be a jury trial.
Highly unlikely it will be televised.
Not a ton of witnesses.
Probably a short trial.
And one judge makes the verdict.
the bloody bat is what quickly blows up his story. there's zero reason for her blood to be on it if everything he said is correct. he's going to be spending a lot of years in the clink.
quick draw mcgraw wrote:
the bloody bat is what quickly blows up his story. there's zero reason for her blood to be on it if everything he said is correct. he's going to be spending a lot of years in the clink.
He breaks the door down with the cricket bat.
Her blood is all over the floor. He drops the cricket bat, when he goes to pick her up.
Bingo, blood on the bat.
What is so far unclear is if the police were for sure there early in the evening.
If what the neighbors reported was earlier in the evening, for sure.
In the rush to report anything, it's been confusing.
In the coming weeks the neighbors may or may not be interviewed on camera..
There is still a lot to come out.
The states case, for one.
I am trying to stay open minded and not let my previous thoughts about OP cloud my thinking on this.
But, any respect I had for OP as an athlete overcoming adversity went away when he criticized the other Paralympic Competitor for his prosthetics. That was absolutely "Lance Armstrong-esque Narcissism" in trying to protect his own interest above anyone else.
In this case, the unanswered questions I have include:
How drunk was he? I had read somewhere there was evidence of drinking that night. Was he basically passed-out and unable to get a clear picture of the situation.
But if you are so paranoid that at the first noise, you would get your gun and proceed to shoot blindly in a closed room, why would you ever leave any window unlocked? You would be the OCD person who - throughout the house - checks every lock 2-3 times, before going to bed. He recalls construction ladders in this time of terror. Why didn't he recall them before he went to bed and lock the bathroom window?
no taste in music wrote:
quick draw mcgraw wrote:the bloody bat is what quickly blows up his story. there's zero reason for her blood to be on it if everything he said is correct. he's going to be spending a lot of years in the clink.
He breaks the door down with the cricket bat.
Her blood is all over the floor. He drops the cricket bat, when he goes to pick her up.
Bingo, blood on the bat.
What is so far unclear is if the police were for sure there early in the evening.
If what the neighbors reported was earlier in the evening, for sure.
In the rush to report anything, it's been confusing.
In the coming weeks the neighbors may or may not be interviewed on camera..
There is still a lot to come out.
The states case, for one.
the forensic analysis will be able to determine whether the blood got on the bat from pounding her head or from just pooling on it on the floor. again, the bat will be his downfall.
He's guilty of something, regardless. You don't get to fire 4 shots into a bathroom that you have no idea who is in and walk away. He's going to prison for some length of time even if it is an accident. And if what he says is true, he should have just put the gun in his mouth, because if that was my wife that I just accidentally killed, I wouldn't be able to live with that guilt.
right, the bat is the key - his story is plausible, unless he beat her with the cricket bat at some point.
I could envision some scenario where he got mad, hit her with the bat, she ran to the bathroom, locked the door, he shot her through the door...
but if she has no bat wounds his story seems to hang together , from what we know.
16.7 During the early morning hours of 14 February 2013, I woke up, went onto the balcony to bring the fan in and closed the sliding doors, the blinds and the curtains. I heard a noise in the bathroom and realised that someone was in the bathroom.
[So, Mr. Terrified of intruders was sleeping with an open balcony window? Also, saying that he "closed curtains and blinds" is obvious cover for the "Pitch dark" defense and seems unlikely if you thought there was an intruder that you would render yourself unable to see anything. Also, what kind-of noise from the bathroom? Presumably the noise of his girlfriend traipsing into the bathroom to pee is one he is familiar with and doesn't sound like burglery?]
16.8 I felt a sense of terror rushing over me. There are no burglar bars across the bathroom window and I knew that contractors who worked at my house had left the ladders outside. Although I did not have my prosthetic legs on I have mobility on my stumps.
[If you knew the ladders were left outside, why the heck would you sleep with open balcony doors?]
16.9 I believed that someone had entered my house. I was too scared to switch a light on.
Again, seems like just more gratuitous cover for the "It was pitch dark defense".
16.10 I grabbed my 9mm pistol from underneath my bed. On my way to the bathroom I screamed words to the effect for him/them to get out of my house and for Reeva to phone the police. It was pitch dark in the bedroom and I thought Reeva was in bed.
[So on the way to the bathroom, probably feet away from where Reeva should have been in the bed, you screamed for her to call the Police and you didn't wait for any type of acknowledgment? I think the FIRST thing you do is quietly wake your girlfriend and tell her to call the Police, NOT yell to intruder. And if you do yell a few feet from her to call the Police, you might take notice of the fact that she didn't respond. So-- again, seems like total BS.]
16.11 I noticed that the bathroom window was open. I realised that the intruder/s was/were in the toilet because the toilet door was closed and I did not see anyone in the bathroom. I heard movement inside the toilet. The toilet is inside the bathroom and has a separate door.
[Interesting type of "pitch dark" where you can see some things and not others. Really, we are expected to believe that he yelled for an intruder to come out Reeva to call the Police and Reeva said nothing from inside the toilet? No Chance.]
16.12 It filled me with horror and fear of an intruder or intruders being inside the toilet. I thought he or they must have entered through the unprotected window.
As I did not have my prosthetic legs on and felt extremely vulnerable, I knew I had to protect Reeva and myself. I believed that when the intruder/s came out of the toilet we would be in grave danger. I felt trapped as my bedroom door was locked and I have limited mobility on my stumps.
[Was the window open? What bearing does a locked bedroom door have on this?]
16.13 I fired shots at the toilet door and shouted to Reeva to phone the police. She did not respond and I moved backwards out of the bathroom, keeping my eyes on the bathroom entrance. Everything was pitch dark in the bedroom and I was still too scared to switch on a light. Reeva was not responding.
[Again with the "Pitch dark" seems like he protests that he couldn't see a bit too much-- even when it no longer matters.]
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it's also possible she hit him with the bat and his blood is embedded in it. they clearly had a fight earlier in the night (cops don't show up to minor arguments over who forgot to take the garbage out) and we know he is a violent nut. i think this is much more plausible than him hitting her with it because he doesn't appear to have any bat marks. plus, i would assume he would beat the crap out of her with his hands and wouldn't need a bat to do so.
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