The latest 4 ½ months and bizarre chapter in the life of Oscar Pistorius wraps up next month.
International Business Times is reporting that closing arguments in Pistorius murder trial of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp are scheduled for Aug. 7.
Pistorius' trial began on March, took a 30-day hiatus for a psychiatric observation, got through reports that Pistorius reenacted his version of events on the night he shot and killed Steenkamp, endured a confrontation between Pistorius and another man at a bar and is still trying to move past a recent report that Pistorius was seen hitting on a model/lawyer that looked like Steenkamp just 52 days after Pistorius killed her.
According to International Business Times, Pistorius' defense team has attempted to show that Pistorius shot Steenkamp on accident on Valentine's Day in 2013. The prosecution is trying to prove that Pistorius had gotten into an argument earlier in the evening, and the double-amputee Olympic sprinter knowingly shot her through a bathroom door in the couples' home.
Pistorius has admitted to drinking more since Steenkamp's death, and alcohol was blamed in the incidents surrounding his altercation with businessman Jared Mortimer, as well as his alleged inappropriate behavior at a party by making unwanted advances at Kesiah Frank.
Pistorius reportedly got into an altercation at the VIP Room in Johannesburg last week. A representative for Pistorius said the 27-year-old was being harassed Mortimer.
"The individual, according to my client, started to aggressively interrogate him on matters relating to the trial. An argument ensued during which my client asked to be left alone," said Pistorius spokeswoman Anneliese Burgess in a statement.
Mortimer tells a different tale, saying Pistorius was drunk and egged him on.
Three witnesses told the Sunday Times of South Africa recently that Pistorius kept hitting on Frank at a party last year even when she made it clear she wasn't interested.
"Those of us closest to him have been witness to his escalating sense of loneliness and alienation," Pistorius' family said in a statement. "This, we believe, is underlying some of his self-harming behavior."
Pistorius faces 25 years to life in prison if he is convicted of murder.
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