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FILE - Olympian Oscar Pistorius stands following his bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was convicted of a charge comparable to third-degree murder for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013. He has been in prison since late 2014. (AP Photo, File)

The vital question may linger forever: Did Oscar Pistorius know he was shooting at his girlfriend?

In the decade since Oscar Pistorius pulled the trigger four times on his 9mm pistol, firing into the head and body of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as she stood inside a locked toilet cubicle in his home, the vital question has still never been answered: Did the world-famous Olympic runner know he was
 
FILE - Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, after his sentencing proceedings. Pistorius could be granted parole on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after nearly 10 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. The double-amputee Olympic runner was convicted of a charge comparable to third-degree murder for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his home in 2013. He has been in prison since late 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius gets parole and will be released on Jan. 5

 
FILE - Oscar Pistorius gestures, at the end of the fourth day of sentencing proceedings in the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Pistorius will have a second chance at parole at a hearing on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023 after he was wrongly ruled ineligible for early release from jail in March. South Africa’s department of corrections said in a statement on Monday, Nov. 20 that a parole board will consider the former Olympic runner’s case again this week. Pistorius turns 37 on Wednesday and has been in prison for nearly a decade. (Alon Skuy/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Oscar Pistorius will have another chance at parole after nearly a decade in prison

 
FILE - Barry Steenkamp, the father of Reeva Steenkamp sits in the High Court for the re-sentencing proceedings of Oscar Pistorius, in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, June 13, 2016. A family spokesperson says the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman who was fatally shot by Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, has died. He was 80. Family lawyer and spokesperson Tania Koen confirmed Barry Steenkamp’s death to The Associated Press on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (Phill Magakoe, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Barry Steenkamp, the father of the woman Oscar Pistorius fatally shot, has died at age 80

 
FILE - In this Wednesday, June 15, 2016, file photo, Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, after his sentencing proceedings. South African former track star Oscar Pistorius has met with the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman he shot to death in 2013, as part of his parole process, the Steenkamp's family lawyer told The Associated Press on Friday July 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Seeking parole, Pistorius meets with girlfriend’s father

 
FILE - In this July 6, 2016, file photo, Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, after a judge passed a new sentence of six years imprisonment after his conviction was changed to murder for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. Pistorius has had his prison sentence extended to 13 years and 5 months in the High Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Marco Longari, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Oscar Pistorius’ sentence increased to 13 years, 5 months

SOMERSET WEST, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius’ prison sentence was more than doubled to 13 years and five months on Friday, a surprisingly dramatic intervention by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal in the Olympic athlete’s fate after the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
 

Prosecutors to argue Pistorius should get more jail time

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius faces another legal challenge when South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal convenes Nov. 3 to hear arguments by state prosecutors that the former track star and convicted murderer should get more jail time.