and i thought, this is funny. and i answered the phone and i said, yep? he said to me, get in your car, pistorius, there s problems at the house. by the time they arrived, police were already on the scene. when we arrived, it was already flooded with police, and everything was cordoned off and couldn t have access to oscar at all. i was just in shock. because when i arrived at house and you see all the police cars and lights, i was standing outside. oscar was inside. i could hear him crying in the garage, and reeva was at the entrance. i just saw the bottom piece and the legs because the police was in and out the door of the front door. and you could hear oscar crying? yep. loudly? yeah, because i know him. you can hear it. it s terrible. police then took oscar into custody. i got to see him late that
reporter: reeva steenkamp was known as one of south africa s most sexiest women. this video shows reeva posing for the cover of a monthly magazine. this man was the editor of the south african edition. she had beauty and int intelligence, and that is the double whammy. we are shooting the descembe cover, and lovely. i remember. so have a good christmas. she got the magazine cover, and that is going to get you noticed and a little bit more commercial work, and probably leads to better tv work. reporter: she was becoming the next big thing, but to family and friends, she was the same old reeva. cnn s drew griffin talked to
amidst a media frenzy as his murder trial began. there was even a drone equipped with cameras hovering above the crowds of spectators. all trying to catch a glimpse of the blade runner as he made his way into court. pistorius is charged with murder and three gun charges. do you understand the charges, mr. pistorius? i do. i do, milady. how do you plead? not guilty, milady. at the start of day one, the defense read a statement from pistorius, backing his plea. at the time of the tragic accident which led to reeva s death, we were in a loving relationship. while i admit i inflicted the fatal gunshot wounds to reeva, this occurrence was indeed an accident. the defense advocate ken aldrich also laid out the defense s case, not only
so. stipp s testimony left pistorius visibly distressed, perhaps convulsing according to one courtroom observer. as the first week of the trial ended, the defense had yet to present its case. whether oscar pistorius will ever run another race, what his future holds will be determined in court. and if convicted, he s facing a mandatory sentence of life in prison. meanwhile, friends and family of reeva steenkamp are left only with images of the past. reeva had a tattoo on the back of her neck that said only god will judge me in italian. do you know why she had that specific tattoo? that was something her grandfather had always said, and he was close to her. only god can judge, that s what everyone is saying. and, yeah, ironically she said
early morning, a tragedy at the home of oscar pistorius. he thought there was an intruder in the bathroom, according to his affidavit. i fired shots at the toilet door and shouted to reeva to phone the police. she did not respond. when i reached the bed, i realized that reeva was not in bed. that s when pistorius says it dawned on him that it could have been his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, on the toilet. i put on my prosthetic legs, ran back to the bathroom and tried to kick the toilet door open. i went back into the bedroom and grabbed my cricket bat to bash open the toilet door. when he finally got the door open, he said he saw reeva slumped over but alive. i carried her down stairs in order to take her to the hospital. she died in my arms. in the dead of the night, the coach s phone rang. it was oscar s agent. that night i forgot to put the phone off and it rang between half past 4:00 and 5:00.