Prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius Friday, one day after South Africa's top appeals court convicted the athlete of murder for killing his magazine-model girlfriend, Fox News has confirmed.
Pistorius must appear in court "as a matter of extreme urgency," and the court will determine any bail amount at that time, said Luvuyo Mfaku, spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority.
Justice Lorimer Eric Leach of the Supreme Court of Appeal said that regardless of who Pistorius said he thought was behind the door, he should have known someone could be killed if he fired.
Under South African law, a person can be convicted of murder if he or she foresaw the possibility of someone dying through their actions and went ahead anyway.