ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />His voice cracking with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defense on Monday (April 7) and apologized to the family of killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.<br/> <br />The disabled South African track star, on trial for murder, said he fired four times through a toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home in the belief he was defending her from an intruder.<br/> <br />"I would like to apologise and say that there is not a moment, there hasn't been a moment, since this tragedy happened, and I haven't thought about the family," Pistorius told the court. "I wake every morning and you're the first people I think of, you're the first people I pray for. I can't imagine the pain and the sorrow and the emptiness that I have caused you and your family. I was simply trying to protect Reeva. I can promise you that when she went to bed that night, she felt loved. I have tried to put words on paper many many times to write to you, but no words would ha
