“Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius may have beat his girlfriend with a cricket bat before shooting her to death in his South Africa home, according to a new report.
Pistorius, who gained fame by using carbon fiber prosthetics to compete on the world stage against able-bodied runners, was arrested last week and charged with murder for shooting his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp early Thursday morning.
Pistorius told cops he mistook her for a burglar, but investigators said a bloodied cricket bat was found in the runner’s home, according to The City Press, a South African newspaper.
Pistorius’ may have either used the bat to attack Steenkamp or break down the bathroom door where she was hiding, or she may have used the bat to defend herself, City Press reported. Police are investigating all three scenarios.
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“There was lots of blood on the bat. Forensic tests will show whose blood it was,” a source with inside knowledge of the case told City Press.
As well as bullet wounds to the head, arm, hand and hip, Steenkamp suffered a “crushed” skull, according to the South African paper.
Steenkamp, 29, was sitting on the toilet when she was hit four times, in the arm, head, hip and finger by bullets fired through the bathroom door, London’s Sun reported.
Meanwhile Pistorius’ best friend said he received a phone call moments after the shooting.
Before the Olympic athlete called the emergency services he phoned Justin Divaris, 27, at 3:55 a.m. to tell him what had happened.
“I said to him, “What are you talking about?” He then repeated himself – “There has been a terrible accident, I shot Reeva”,’ he told The Sun.
By the time Divaris got to the home it had already been sealed off by police. Divaris said the model’s body was “covered in blankets and towels.”
Steenkamp had been dating Pistorius, a double-amputee known as the Blade Runner, since November.
But she has also been linked to a playboy rugby player, a relationship that could have led to a final, fatal dustup with Pistorius.