Pistorius trembled and, at times, covered his ears as Dr. Johan Stipp recalled the blow-by-blow events in the moments after the double-amputee Olympic runner shot Steenkamp Feb. 14, 2013.
Stipp, a radiologist, said he heard the shots fired and approached the home, where “at the bottom of the stairs … there was a lady lying on her back on the floor.”
Stipp said Pistorius told him, “I shot her … I thought she was a burglar … I shot her.”
Steenkamp’s severe injuries at the time in the moments after the gunshots included brain tissue protruding from her head, and bloody lacerations from gunshots on her right leg, right arm, the doctor testified.
“She had no pulse in the neck, she had no peripheral pulse,” Stipp said of his efforts to try and revive the model. “She had no breathing movements that she made.”
The radiologist said that Pistorius was praying and trying to hold her mouth open in the moments following the shots.
“Oscar was crying, saying ‘please let her live,’” he recalled. “He was saying he would dedicate his life to God if she will only live.”
Stipp said he was concerned “Oscar would hurt himself” during the tense moments in the wake of the shooting.
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