Reeva Steenkamp’s Painting

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, South African model Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day 2013. He claims to have mistaken her for an intruder, and as of April 2014, his murder trial is still ongoing.

 

Reeva’s mother, June Steenkamp, told a newscaster that her daughter had a premonition of her own death and made it into a painting at the age of 14. The painting portrays Reeva as an angel standing at the bottom of a ladder leading to heaven. Far off in the distance, she drew a man. He has a gun in his hand.

 

The angel looks terrified. Her hands cover her mouth.

 

Reeva isn’t here to explain the picture’s true meaning, of course, but her parents are convinced that it depicts her death in a chillingly accurate manner.