{"id":18162,"date":"2013-02-20T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/i-thought-i-was-shooting-at-an-intruder\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:55:37","slug":"i-thought-i-was-shooting-at-an-intruder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/i-thought-i-was-shooting-at-an-intruder\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I was shooting at an intruder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African athletics and Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has denied murdering his girlfriend, saying he shot her by mistake thinking she was an intruder.<\/p>\n<p>He told a packed bail hearing in Pretoria that he loved Reeva Steenkamp and had never intended to kill her.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors accuse Pistorius of premeditated murder. They say he shot his girlfriend dead deliberately, firing through a locked bathroom door.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing came as Steenkamp\u2019s family held her funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The case has shocked South Africans and many around the world who admire Pistorius for overcoming adversity to become a Paralympic champion.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court that in the early hours of the morning of February 14, Pistorius \u2013 a double amputee \u2013 had got up from bed, put on his prostheses, and fired his pistol through the locked door of the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>He shot four times and hit Steenkamp three times, Nel said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the defendant later broke down the bathroom door with a cricket bat and carried the body downstairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-21503370\" target=\"_blank\">Read on<\/a>. \u2013 bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African athletics and Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius has denied murdering his girlfriend, saying he shot her by mistake thinking she was an intruder. He told a packed bail hearing in Pretoria that he loved Reeva Steenkamp and had never intended to kill her. Prosecutors accuse Pistorius of premeditated murder. They say he shot his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}