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Man kill for texting at movie theater
a man was shot by a 70 year old retired police officer for texting at a movie theater.well if you were to guess were it happen, if you guess Florida you are right.
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CNN) -- Michael and Jamira Dixon believe they were turned in for texting by shooting suspect Curtis Reeves two weeks ago at the same Florida movie theater complex where Chad Oulson was shot to death Monday.
Reeves is charged with second-degree murder after an argument about texting ended with the 71-year-old former police officer shooting Oulson in the chest, prosecutors said.
The Dixons said Wednesday night that in late December during a matinee showing of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" a man they identified as Reeves was in the same theater with them and was "bothered by everything."
Jamira Dixon said she sent a text at 2:20 p.m. and an usher told her that she needed to put the phone away or she would have to leave the theater.
The man she identified as Reeves was sitting in the same row and talked with the usher afterward and gesticulated at her and her group, she said. She said she was there with her husband, three of her children and a niece.
Jamira Dixon is sure the man was Reeves because, she said, she made it a point to remember his face in case she went to file a complaint about him with theater management.
CNN repeatedly tried Wednesday to get a comment about the Dixons' claims from Reeves' attorney Richard Escobar. He didn't respond to CNN's requests.
The Dixons spent part of Tuesday night giving their version of the events of the December 28 movie to authorities, they said. They were interviewed separately, each for an hour, they said. CNN was unable to confirm Wednesday night that those interviews took place.
In recounting the experience to reporters outside their home in Wesley Chapel, the Dixons said the man never used foul language toward them; he just angrily kept his eye on them from the end of the row.
"As the (day) went on he just glared and glared and was grumbling the whole (time)," Jamira Dixon said.
"I don't think he saw much of the movie," Michael Dixon said.
Another man's cell phone went off during the movie, Jamira Dixon said, and the man leaned over and snarled at the guy on the phone. "Can you please, please turn that off. It's really disturbing me," the man said, according to Dixon.
She said she heard about Monday's shooting through a Facebook post she noticed while driving that afternoon. Because the incident also involved someone texting at the same theater, she asked a friend to see if there was a picture of the suspect and send it.
When she saw it she said she had to pull the car over.
"It sent chills down my spine," she said. "I knew it was that person that I had an encounter with a few weeks prior."
She showed the picture to her husband, who agreed it was the same man.
"I was, like, that is the same guy," Michael Dixon said. "It could have happened to us. We were in the same exact position."
In the aftermath, heroes responded
An argument, then a shot
The shooting happened early Monday afternoon at the Grove 16 theater, just before an afternoon showing of "Lone Survivor," a film about a Navy SEAL mission.
Reeves was with his wife and sat behind Oulson, 43, and his wife, authorities said. Oulson was using his cell phone during the previews before the film and Reeves told him to put it away, according to police and witnesses.
The two men began to argue and Reeves walked out of the auditorium. Police said Reeves was going to complain to a theater employee.
But Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told CNN Tuesday night that the manager was busy with another customer and Reeves never addressed his complaint with a supervisor.
When Reeves returned, witnesses and authorities said that Oulson asked him if he had gone to tell on him for texting.
Police said Tuesday that Oulson was texting his young daughter's babysitter.
Voices were raised. Oulson threw a bag of popcorn at Reeves, police said. Then, the former police officer took out a .380 semi-automatic handgun and shot Oulson, police said.
Opinion: Texting killineg tells us one thing
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/justic...ater-shooting/. This need to stop, this stupid law "stand your ground" need to be abolish and gun
law serious need to happen.
Sorry i was reading the wrong story when post this. They were two ( 3) white people.
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