Yes I can imagine someone, anyone in that situation running around in a frenzy. I can also imagine a man screaming and wailing in a high pitched tone. The description weeping and wailing springs to mind. It is not just women who react like this when faced with such horrific circumstances.
However I don't feel as sorry for OP as I did earlier, I have seen him in a different light, but I am still giving him the benefit of the doubt up to this point. Still trying to keep an open mind.
I am all for giving people a fair hearing - If you feel sorry for Oscar then I respect your opinion. (Even if I don't like or agree with it.)
I though, feel sorry for Reeva and her family. Reeva for obvious reasons and the family, because the only person who can help them understand exactly what happened that night, is asking them to believe the following:
A Pathologist says Reeva ate around 1am. OP says she didn't.
The last ever words Reeva spoke on this planet were, " Can't you sleep Baba?"
She never uttered another word or made another sound, apart from closing a door & moving a magazine rack.
He says she was in bed when he hobbled round it to pull the fans in, and back round it to fetch his gun. - Although he never looked at the bed.
Once he had closed the curtains, the room was so dark, he could not see anything.
The noise of the fans, prevented him hearing Reeva get out of bed.
But the noise of the fans, did not prevent him hearing a window open over 10 metres away.
In pitched darkness, he hobbled round the bed & felt for his gun under it. He never looked at the bed.
He then spoke to her, but she didn't answer.
He began a 9 metre journey, unsteady on his stumps.
He began screaming. Not shouting. Screaming. Reeva stayed silent in the bed behind him.
He went silent. She still never spoke.
He started screaming again, she stayed silent.
Instead of taking a covering position behind a wall, he stood out in the open bathroom.
He heard a movement. Not a sound - a movement.
He thought that movement was person or persons coming out of the toilet to attack him.
He didn't see anyone.
He didn't even see the door handle move.
He was a trained firearm user and he knew he should never fire unless he could see his target.
He never shouted a warning.
He never fired a warning shot.
He fired four times.
Still giving him the benefit of the doubt?
After the shots, he stands still for a few seconds.
Then he walks backwards on his stumps, in pitched darkness.
He goes round two 90 degree corners in pitched darkness towards his bed.
He climbs up on the bed backwards, looking at the passageway.
He scrambles over the bed, with a cocked gun in his hand.
He feels on the floor the other side of the bed with his other hand.
He does to disturb any of the items on the floor.
He climbs off that side of the bed and does not disturb any of those same items.
Nor does he stand on any of them.
He walks back round the bed, past the two fans he clearly cannot see in the pitched dark.
He then hobbles very quickly back into the bathroom with a cocked gun still in his hand.
He charges the door a couple of times with his shoulder - holding the gun still.
He hobbles back into the bedroom, back round the bed, opens the blinds, curtains & balcony doors - with a gun in his hand.
That cocked gun does not go off again.
He shouts out loud on the balcony.
He goes back inside, puts the gun down and puts his prosthesis on.
Still giving him the benefit of the doubt?
He picks the gun up again, runs again into the bathroom and kicks the door.
He runs back into his bedroom & picks up the Cricket Bat.
He runs back into the bathroom with the bat and strikes the door.
At some point here, he puts the gun down.
He hits the door again & breaks into the cubicle & opens the door.
Still giving him the benefit of the doubt?
Upon seeing Reeva mortally wounded (with a head wound I won't describe) he moves her.
He then tries to use her phone.
He pulls her out of the toilet, leaves her on the floor and runs to collect his phones*
At some point, he has put the light on, but he does not not remember at which point.
He calls not the emergency services, but a man who will later testify to being a friendly neighbour. (Stander)
He calls security.
He then calls Netcare who he says, tell him to move Reeva along corridors, downstairs & into a car.
Still giving him the benefit of the doubt?
Security calls him and he tells them things are fine.
He carries Reeva through his house to the bottom of the stairs.
He decided the best way to stop the blood is with tape/ plastic bags & towels.
The house is filling up with people at this time. During this time, he washes off lots of the blood, makes other calls, puts his phone on charge but remembers nothing about those facts.
*One of his phones disappears until 4 days after the shooting
OP's friendly neighbour Stander, gives Dr Stipp details not to the Police, but to OP's lawyer who has been called.
At no point, does OP, or his entourage, feel it necessary to phone Reeva's family.
Now, you can still give OP the benefit of the doubt if you wish. You can still feel sorry for him. However, this is about the death of Reeva which in my opinion, is more important than the life of Pistorius. If after what I have outlined above you still feel the same, then I sincerely hope you never get selected for Jury service.
