Pistorius shot girlfriend in hip before head, court told

Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend first in the hip before hitting her fatally in the head through a locked toilet door, a police ballistics expert testified at the Paralympian’s murder trial in South Africa.

The ballistics report appears to support earlier testimony that Reeva Steenkamp had time to cry for help before she died and contradicts the defence team’s version that she could not have screamed.

The 27-year-old Paralympian sprinter says Steenkamp’s death was a terrible accident, and that he shot her through the locked door after he mistook her for an intruder when she went to the toilet.