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| Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five years in prison |
| By wusa9.com |
| Published: 10/21/2014 |
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PRETORIA, South Africa (CBS) - Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp with four shots from a handgun on Valentine's Day 2013. The former Paralympic double-amputee track star known as "Blade Runner" -- who shot to international fame when he was granted permission to run in the 2012 Olympics alongside able-bodies athletes -- has maintained since the day of the shooting that he believed an intruder entered his home and was hiding behind the locked bathroom cubicle door. Prosecutors argued that he knew it was Steenkamp behind the door in his luxury house and that he shot her in a fit of rage after an argument. Read More. |
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