Lolo Jones was asked during an impromptu airport interview what she thought about fellow Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, who was sentenced to five years of prison on October 21 for culpable homicide.
He shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013, who he claimed he had mistaken for an intruder.
A reporter with TMZ Sports caught up with Jones at LAX on Thursday and asked the sprinter about the recent verdict in the Pistorius trial, since the South African double amputee was also an Olympian, and whether it was a “good sentencing.”
Jones responded saying that she hadn’t stayed up with the trial, because it was hard for her since she had “a dad who was in prison for murder.” She also mentioned that she was a non-judgmental person and there’s “two sides of the story, and it’s really tough, you know, because I know on one end the family is suffering and then you have Oscar as well. So it’s like, it’s in God’s hands, and for me, as a Christian, God is my ultimate judge.”
The reporter pressed her for a statement, and Jones said she couldn’t make a “proper statement” not knowing all the details, but “you just have to keep the family in your prayers, for sure, because they lost their daughter, and then you have to keep Oscar in your prayers to make sure that in prison, he rehabs and you know, has great counseling and stuff.”
