Pistorius's Character Questioned Over Gun Incident

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
5 March 2014
Tags:
Africa, South Africa

A month before he fatally shot his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius cajoled a friend into taking the blame when a gun was accidentally fired under the Johannesburg restaurant table where he and other friends were sitting, according to testimony Wednesday in the double-amputee runner's murder trial. "Just say it was you. I don't want any tension around me," witness Kevin Lerena remembered Pistorius telling a friend. "'There's too much media hype around me."

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