A Valentines Day in Hell

Oscar Pistorious, known as "the Blade runner", the first double amputee to race in the Olympics, a burgeoning super star, wealthy beyond what most of us can  imagine, tonight sits, filled with dread, in a dreary jail cell, awaiting trial for murder.
The Police have said that Oscar
murdered his girlfriend, well known supermodel, Reeva Steenkamp.
Commentators have suggested that it was an accident, that he mistook his girlfriend for a criminal breaking into his home.
The spokesman for the Police said, "This wasn't an accident, we are charging him for murder." 
The Daily Beast reported "Their relationship was described by family members as “healthy” and“fabulous.”
Steenkamp herself recently tweeted about her excitement for Valentine’s Day: “What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow???”

So what went wrong in the wee hours at Pistorius’s house that led to Steenkamp’s untimely end?

It may be a while before we have a definitive answer to that question, but police reports of possible domestic violence indicate that—beneath its glossy surface—their relationship might have been turbulent.

Pistorius notoriously got into a Twitter spat with his ex-girlfriend, Samantha Taylor, after she remarked on his new romance with Steenkamp: “Oscar has such a way with women. She's probably not the only one he's got." "

And so it goes, as they say.

The word that immediately comes to mind here is tragedy.
A momentary surge of primtive, instinctive anger, a handgun and probably alcohol and or drugs, and the unthinkable, murder, becomes a reality.
A young woman, on the verge of achieving her dreams, gone, shot four times.
A superstar, admired by all, his life is effectively over as well.

Alcohol, guns and rage, an all too common mix, the results of which are seen much too often.
As another such tragedy unfolds,the Blackburn Report will be sticking with the story and attempting to make sense of what on the surface seems completely senseless.

Michael Blackburn, Sr.