PRETORIA, South Africa — "Bang ... bang, bang, bang." The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius opened Monday in South Africa with testimony from a neighbor who described the sound of what she said were four gunshots and recalled the "blood-curdling screams" of a woman who prosecutors say was the girlfriend slain by the onetime star athlete in his home. "It's the most helpless feeling I've ever had in my life," university lecturer Michelle Burger said of listening to the screams.
Pistorius trial begins