In a Pretoria court, the first witness said she heard a woman's "blood-curdling" screams coming from Pistorius' house on the night he killed Steenkamp. Michelle Burger, a neighbor of Pistorius, sobbed in court after recalling that she was haunted by what she heard.
Another neighbor, who is a doctor, described in detail the grisly scene he was confronted with when he entered Pistorius' home and found a fatally wounded Steenkamp lying on the floor and Pistorius kneeling next to her, weeping, praying and apparently trying to help his dying or dead girlfriend breathe even though she had a terrible gunshot wound in the head and the doctor knew there was little hope.