What I don't understand is why did Oscar shoot at all if he thought this was an intruder? He's got the man pinned down in an upstairs toilet. He's calling out to him that he has a gun and is calling the police. Why then unload into the door? And at no point before the final fatal shot did she scream out, being hit in the hip and such, causing Oscar to stop? I just don't buy his story.
I also had the same thought process as you, aa, that if he was on his stumps threatening her, she might not have been so deathly terrified and could have run out the door to safety. Which leaves me to believe he must have been threatening her with the gun before she ran to the bathroom. Maybe she brought her phone with the intention of calling the authorities, the door was locked and that's why he shot.
So far the minor inconsistencies in the witness testimonies and typical defense posturing are not enough to convince me that there wasn't some kind of altercation going on in the house before the shooting. All three heard shouting and screams. I don't imagine OP. Would be calling out to a would-be intruder in his girliest possible voice. Perhaps the one witness' husband said it was Oscar screaming because he could see that it was coming from his place and knowing him to live alone assumed it was him. Or perhaps it was his way of saying it's coming from his place, he must be in trouble.
At the least his guilty of gross and reckless negligence. At the worst he's guilty of cold blooded murder. I'd imagine it's somewhere in the middle.
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Yes, Meebee, that sounds very possible and likely.
Let's go to the witness today, who said basically, he told him to take the rap for it b/c basically, it would bring him a lot of unwanted/unneeded attention.
People had put the "hero" light on him from the last Olympics.
His story had potential to make him so much money after the Olympics in terms of endorsements.
He had to keep his "hero" status/good name. He couldn't have it going around that he shot a gun in the middle of a crowded restaurant.
Now, let's say Reeva and Oscar are arguing about something, what we don't know.
Reeva picks up the phone and says something like, Oscar if you don't stop right now, I'm going to call the police and I'm going to tell them everything, I'm going to tell them you're threatening me (perhaps he verbally threatened her), that you're cursing at me, etc.. If he was on his stumps, I imagine she would have felt she could say that without being in grave danger.
That's when he picked up the gun. He was overrun with emotion, thinking of what would happen to his career if Reeva made that phone call. Thinking of the headlines. Thinking of the aftermath. In his panic, he picked up the gun and pointed it at her to not call anyone.
She runs into the bathroom, with the phone.
He is afraid she is definately going to call the police now. Now it will be even worse b/c he's already held a gun and threatened her with a gun.
And in his panic, he shoots her.
JMO.
