Pistorius Is Indicted on Murder Charge

[wercal]

22. You are projecting your own logical evaluation of the situation onto Pistorius

We know he was paranoid. He hears a bump in the night...he shoots at it. Sure it makes no sense to you and me - but in the heat of the moment, it made sense to Pistorius. And BTW, deliberately murdering someone in your own home, where others can hear the gunshots, also defies logic, doesn't it?

BTW, I don't know why people are thinking in terms of a burglar...Pistorius wasn't necessarily worried about that. Rather, he was pathologically afraid of being kidnapped for ransom. So in his mind, whoever was in the bathroom was the boogey man (or group of men) that were about to come out and get him.

Doesn't make it right, and I'm certainly not defending his actions (blindly shooting into a door without knowing who was behind it). But I can certainly see him doing this. At the time of the murder, I saw interviews of Pistorius (from before the murders), and interviews with his friends. He was one paranoid SOB.

Here's a story about his accidentally shooting a gun in a restaurant:

http://www.businessinsider.com/police-pistorius-nearly-shot-friend-in-foot-2013-2

The same story recounts his tweet about going into 'full combat recon mode' because the washing machine was making noise at night.

And the story links to a NY times article, in which he describes another time he grabbed his 9mm and 'tiptoed downstairs'.

He shot first...and asked questions later.