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A retired Tampa police captain, angry about a man texting during movie previews, shot and killed the moviegoer and wounded the man’s wife Monday afternoon just before the showing of “Lone Survivor” at the Grove 16 theater, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said.

Chad and Nicole Oulson of Land O’ Lakes were taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa. Chad Oulson, 43, died, and Nicole Oulson, 33, was treated for a gunshot wound to her hand and released, authorities said.

The Oulsons were sitting in front of Reeves and his wife, and Chad Oulson was texting as they waited for the movie to begin, the sheriff’s office said. Detectives said Reeves asked Oulson several times to stop.

Reeves eventually left the theater to complain to staff. When he returned, Oulson asked if Reeves had reported him to management, the sheriff’s office said.

The two began to argue and Reeves pulled out a gun and shot Oulson in the chest, the sheriff’s office reported. Nicole Oulson put her hand in front of her husband as the shot was fired, and the same bullet struck both of them, the sheriff’s office reported.

After the shooting, Reeves put the gun, a .380-caliber handgun, in his lap. An off-duty Sumter County sheriff’s deputy who had come to see the movie secured the gun and detained him, the sheriff’s office reported.

About 25 people were in the theater where “Lone Survivor” was showing, said Melanie Snow, a spokeswoman for the Pasco sheriff’s office.

Among them was Charles Cummings, a Vietnam veteran who had come to see the movie to celebrate his 68th birthday. Cummings said he was about two seats away from where the shooting happened.

Cummings, who was at the theater with his son, Alex Cummings, said when the argument first began, Reeves left to find a manager. When Reeves returned, the argument started again, he said.

He said Chad Oulson told the shooter, “I was just texting my 3-year-old daughter.” Then the voices got louder, someone threw popcorn and one man shot the other, Cummings said.

“I can’t believe people would bring a pistol into a movie,” Charles Cummings said.

The movie hadn’t started at the time of the shooting, which happened about 1:20 p.m., but previews of coming attractions had started.

Curtis Reeves Jr., 71, was charged with second-degree homicide. http://tbo.com/pasco-county/deputies-reports-of-two-people-shot-at-wes
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A retired Tampa police captain, angry about a man texting during movie previews, shot and killed the moviegoer...

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Originally posted by Storymark:
He is now claiming that he feared for his life - over popcorn.

And this happened during the previews. Damned movie hadn't even started.

He is, rightfully, being held without bail.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
"come on! No judge with a brain will ever invoke SYG. "

(Was a joke, Shiny...) ;o)

But yes, Magons: "Some people only see solutions down the barrel of a gun." Far too many, in America, unfortunately...and our culture gives them all the guns they could want with which to "see" those solutions.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
It's the mentality I'm speaking of, Magons--yes, it's gone way too far for background checks to do much good, and we can't even get THEM! It's the mentality that people have the "right" to take guns anywhere they want...humans being humans, things like this are inevitable, as are the children dying daily from guns, as are all the accidental shootings I don't bother to put up but see in the news every single goddamned day.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Looks like cop mentality strikes again.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Looks like cop mentality strikes again.

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The photo, a smiling Facebook picture of Reeves, came over her phone.

“It sent chills down my spine and I had to pull the car over, ” Dixon said Wednesday night from her home in Wesley Chapel. “I knew who it was. It was that person I had an encounter with.''

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“As the night went on, he just glared and glared and was grumbling the whole, entire night,” Jamira Dixon said.

The man might be suffering from dementia, which could make him both irrational and irascible.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
They do it here too. It's the younger generation.

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