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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexting during a movie gets you killed in Florida
Even when a guy just sent a text himself.
A man who shot a fellow Florida theater-goer in a dispute over the victim's texting sent a text message himself minutes before the fatal gunfire, according to records obtained this week by news organizations.
Curtis Reeves, a 71-year-old former police captain who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in central Floridas Pasco-Pinellas counties court, sent a text message to his son from the Cobb Grove 16 theaters in Wesley Chapel, Fla., the Associated Press and other media reported Thursday.
The son, Matthew Reeves, told investigators after the Jan. 13 shooting that he texted his father to let him know that he was running late for the afternoon Lone Survivor showing. The elder Reeves replied by text message that he and his wife had already taken their seats. The son reportedly walked into the theater as the single shot was fired.
Chad Oulson, 43, died from a gunshot wound to the chest. As the movie's previews were underway, Oulson was texting his daughter's babysitter. Police have said that Curtis Reeves took offense at that; Reeves told investigators that Oulson struck him in the face during their dispute, making him fear for his life.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-movie-theater-shooting-suspect-sent-text-message-20140313,0,7787069.story#ixzz2vzltAKke
Curtis Reeves, a 71-year-old former police captain who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in central Floridas Pasco-Pinellas counties court, sent a text message to his son from the Cobb Grove 16 theaters in Wesley Chapel, Fla., the Associated Press and other media reported Thursday.
The son, Matthew Reeves, told investigators after the Jan. 13 shooting that he texted his father to let him know that he was running late for the afternoon Lone Survivor showing. The elder Reeves replied by text message that he and his wife had already taken their seats. The son reportedly walked into the theater as the single shot was fired.
Chad Oulson, 43, died from a gunshot wound to the chest. As the movie's previews were underway, Oulson was texting his daughter's babysitter. Police have said that Curtis Reeves took offense at that; Reeves told investigators that Oulson struck him in the face during their dispute, making him fear for his life.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-movie-theater-shooting-suspect-sent-text-message-20140313,0,7787069.story#ixzz2vzltAKke
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Texting during a movie gets you killed in Florida (Original Post)
BainsBane
Mar 2014
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msanthrope
(37,549 posts)1. That hypocrisy may actually get him convicted. nt
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)2. Oh, but he had a ccw and everybody knows that gun owners,
especially those who qualify to carry loaded guns in public are responsible and NEVER do anything like shooting an unarmed man over texting! That popcorn was a deadly weapon!!
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)3. Stand your isle?
Those center seats are crucial.