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Pistorius pleads not guilty at start of trial (Yahoo Sports)

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People stand around a newspaper poster reading 'I want to look into Oscar's eyes'' before Oscar Pistorius arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

The first witness in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial testified Monday to hearing a woman's ''blood-curdling'' screams before the sound of four gunshots on the night the double-amputee Olympian killed his girlfriend. Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius' gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom. Pistorius says he killed Steenkamp by mistake thinking she was a dangerous intruder in his house, but prosecutors believe the world-famous athlete shot his girlfriend after a fight and immediately tried to paint a picture at the trial of a loud argument before the fatal shots. Burger's testimony contradicts Pistorius' version of events, because he said he thought Steenkamp was in bed and he did not describe any woman screaming.



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