Oscar Pistorius, the first double amputee to run in the Olympics, is facing a murder charge after his model girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp was shot and killed at his home in Pretoria.
Police were called to the house in the early hours of the morning, where they found paramedics treating a 29-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the head and upper body. She died at the scene.
Officers have recovered a 9mm pistol.
A 26-year-old man will appear in court on Friday.
Early reports said Mr Pistorius might have mistaken his girlfriend for an intruder at his home in the upmarket Silver Woods gated compound on the outskirts of South Africa's administrative capital. However, police say neighbours heard screaming and shouting around the time of the shooting, and that they had been called to investigate incidents of a domestic nature at the same house in the past.
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