OLYMPIAN MURDER

Posted: 14/02/2013 10:51 GMT | Updated: 14/02/2013 12:29 GMT

This is the first picture of Olympian Oscar Pistorius since the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Dressed in a grey hooded sweatshirt, the 26-year-old is seen being escorted out of his compound in Pretoria.

Pistorius was arrested on suspicion of murder after the shooting in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Oscar Pistorius (in a grey hooded-top) leaves his Pretoria compound on Thursday morning
Paramedics were called between 4 – 5am after the woman was shot twice in the head and arm.

Police have recovered a 9mm pistol from the scene.

According to initial reports in local media, model Steenkamp, 30, may have been mistaken for a burglar at the property in the Silver Lakes Golf Estate in Pretoria.

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But police said the shooting early today was being treated as a murder investigation and said there had been previous incidents at the address described as “allegations of a domestic nature”.

Brigadier Denise Beukes also said police were “very surprised” by the burglar suggestion, telling reporters near the scene: “These allegations did not come from us.”