Biography Of Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius's 'Blade Runner'

Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius, also known as “Blade Runner”, was born November 22, 1986. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is the middle of three children. Oscar was born with a condition called fibular hemimelia. Fibular hemimelia is a congenital condition in which someone is missing the fibula in one or both legs. Unfortunately, Oscar was born without a fibula in both legs. His parents had to make a terribly difficult decision to have his legs amputated when he was 11 months old. The amputation occurred below the knees but within six months, Oscar was on a pair of prosthetic legs and doing extremely well. Growing up, his parents divorced when he was just 6 years old and his mother passed away when he was 15 after suffering a
At around 4 A.M., Detective Hilton Botha got the call and went straight to Oscar’s home in the gated community of Silver Woods Country Estate in Pretoria. The first scene was the body of Reeve Steenkamp with three gun shots. Pistorius called the manager of the community to call an ambulance and then carried her down the stairs from the bathroom. It was reported that he gave her mouth to mouth and someone tried to tie a tourniquet around on of the shots to stop the bleeding. A witness told Botha that she had still been breathing. A doctor had rushed over from a nearby house but noticed head wounds and said the resuscitation would not help. A few moments later, she stopped
One theory is that she may have been cowering in the toilet with crossed arms explaining why a bullet had gone through her fingers and eventually hitting her arm. The other two shots were above the right ear and another to her hip. Apparently, Pistorius thought there was a burglar in the house and had gone towards the bathroom because he thought they had locked themselves in there. That is when he shot through the door and then when he opened the door, he realized it was Reeva. Botha was not convinced. “There is no way anything else could have happened,” said Botha. “It was just them in the house, and according to the security registers she had been staying there for two to three days, so he had to be used to her by that time.... There was no forced entry. The only place there could have been entrance was the open bathroom window, and we did everything we could to see if anyone went through it, and it was impossible. So I thought it was an open-and-closed case. He shot her—that’s it. I was convinced that it was murder, and I told my colonel, ‘You already read him his rights, so you have to arrest