I have watched some of these docs and read things so much speculation and media embellishment tainted so many facts to be honest. It’s obvious that SA feels unsafe to many who live there, and causes anxiety and fear.
The police were not the best on the crime scene (perhaps due to lack of funding) they lost loads of evidence and parts of the actual door, things went missing and the allegation of being called out to a DV incident was nothing of the kind, it was an incident at a party where a woman had been asked to leave
Also the texts pointed out where they were arguing could be read in many different ways, given context or interpreted another way with no context
why she packed up all her clothes - she didn’t live there and they had only dated 3 months so not likely she was going to have her own wardrobe space
It did come across as though he was immature in relationships, had multiple women overlapping, was very insecure and easily upset, and equally excitable by a reckless lifestyle which involved guns. He did not seem to be a great boyfriend and had a critical side. I think he is a strange mix of someone who feels weak and insecure internally so pushes himself hard externally.
His version of events did not come across as completely unbelievable - he asked her to close the door and move the fans before she went to sleep and she didn’t, so when he woke up he was perhaps already panicking a little. If it was really dark, he felt unsteady and vulnerable and not fully awake, it sounded like he could have reacted out of fear and panic of hearing the bathroom window open.
I agree there are questions as to why she didn’t scream, I can’t remember if there was a timeline of how quickly the shots were fired after each other as she may not have had the chance to react in the way you assume (or see in films) - shock often causes you to freeze, going into a foetal position may have been instinctual and if it all happened very quickly, the shock and pain of the first shot confusing her completely. Also his timeline of how fast things happened will not be accurate he won’t have looked at a clock and what feels like 5 mins can actually be 2 mins
I suppose I don’t understand why if having a terrible row, she ran into a room where she couldn’t escape him rather than into the main house. It wasn’t clear whether either of them turned a main light on, she could have taken her phone to give some light on her way to the toilet. He strikes me as someone who is fussy about things like that
The one thing that made me
was that it showed he had been on his phone (or Reeva had) about an hour before he allegedly woke up to move the fans. So either she looked at his phone when he was asleep (and could have not liked what she saw) or he had already woken up and knew the fans hadn’t been moved so makes no sense why he started panicking the second time
So I conclude I don’t know and never will
I don’t think he rang his lawyer he rang the manager of the gated community to come help him because I think she was still alive at that point
Also as I clearly can’t sleep
I remember thinking about it, what if it was a terrible miscommunication?
Oscar gets up to move the fans. Reeva goes to the toilet and he doesn’t realise (soft carpets, bed doesn’t squeak) both are half asleep
She gets to the toilet and hears Oscar shout there is an intruder. She is too scared to open the door and come out as she doesn’t know where they are in the house, so pulls the door closed and locks herself in. She doesn’t want to call out to him as she is afraid. She hears Oscar shouting from bedroom but he says he didn’t shout in the bathroom as to not give his position away so she may not have realised he came in, she didn’t call out as she was hiding and had no idea he thought she was the intruder, so didn’t alert him. She was unaware he was going to shoot and perhaps thought the intruder was shooting at her
I’m not saying he’s innocent he clearly intended to seriously wound or kill whoever was in that room
