The 29-year-old girlfriend of South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius was found fatally shot in his upscale Pretoria home early Thursday, authorities said.
Police charged a 26-year-old man -- the same age as Pistorius -- with murder in connection with the shooting and said he will appear in a Pretoria magistrate court Thursday afternoon. But they would not say whether the suspect was Pistorius.
Oscar Pistorius was one of my favorite athletes at the summer Olympic games last year. It wasn't just because he was a double amputee fast enough to run with able bodied runners, which is story enough in itself. There was a long profile of him in the New York Times Magazine that left me liking him as a person. He had so much spirit, so much life, you felt like that that is someone who would be fun to hang out with.
