Update On Father Killed For Texting In Theater

Remember a few months back when I wrote about that old man shooting that guy in a movie theater for texting in Florida? CLICK HERE if you haven't. So the case is going on now where the 71 year old former police captain Curtis Reeves shot and killed 43 year old Chad Oulson and wounded his wife Nicole Oulson. Reeves has plead not guilty to second-degree murder and could get 25 years in prison if convicted. Might as well say death. Well it turns out that Reeves was texting just minutes before he shot and killed a man for doing the same damned thing.

Reeves received a text from his son, Matthew Reeves, saying that he was running late for the screening of Lone Survivor and his father replied that he and his wife were there and already seated. Now, in the original reports there was never any mention of the fact that his wife was there with him. I pictured this angry, old man just wanting to see some war films. His son Matthew apparently arrived just as the shot was fired.

Killed For Texting In A Theater

Imagine sitting in a movie theater with your spouse waiting to watch a movie. Minutes later you are shot and they are laying there bleeding to death. Not because some asshole thinks he's The Joker but because your spouse was texting during a movie and then threw popcorn at someone who thinks its fine to come to the movies with a loaded handgun. This happened in Florida recently when a married couple Chad Oulson, 43, and his wife Nicole Oulson were out to see a matinee of Lone Survivor.

At the Grove 16 theater in Wesley Chapel Chad was sending texts to his 3 year old daughter when Curtis Reeves, 71, asked him to put his phone away. Chad decided not to and continued. Reeves asked him a few more times before leaving to get a theater manager. He came back without a manager and asked Chad to stop. Next thing you know Chad throws popcorn at Reeves who shoots him. Nicole was injured, shot in the hand, because she was covering Chad at the time he was shot. A nurse who was there tried to give CPR while an off duty sheriff's deputy held Reeves there. Reeves who is a retired police captain has been charged with second-degree murder.