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🗓️ 12 June 2025
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A fatal confrontation inside a movie theater in Wesley Chapel, Florida, results in the death of one man and the arrest of another.
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0:00.0 | On Monday, January 13, 2014, moviegoers were settling in to watch a 120 p.m. showing of |
0:08.5 | Lone Survivor at the Cobb Theater in Wesley Chapel, Florida. The movie had just come out the |
0:15.1 | previous Friday, January 10th, and it was an instant hit, especially among those who served in the military. |
0:23.6 | Among those in the crowd that afternoon was 43-year-old Chad Olson and his wife, Nicole. |
0:30.8 | Chad was a former member of the United States Navy who had served in Operation Desert Storm. |
0:37.0 | He was reportedly excited to watch the film, |
0:39.7 | which was about another Navy man, Marcus LaTrell. Nicole had taken the day off and the couple |
0:46.0 | decided to drop their daughter off at a local daycare center. Since having her, they had found |
0:51.3 | it difficult to spend one-on-one time together. One row behind them |
0:56.8 | was 71-year-old Curtis Reeves, a retired police captain. He was sitting alongside his wife, Vivian. |
1:05.5 | The two had spontaneously decided to catch the film on that Monday afternoon. They were going to meet their son Matthew, |
1:12.6 | who also wanted to see it. Before the lights dimmed for the preview, both couples were seated. |
1:19.6 | The Reeves were still waiting for the arrival of their son. But before the movie would begin, |
1:26.4 | words would be exchanged, an argument would break out, popcorn would be thrown, gunfire would echo through the Cobb Theater, and someone would be dead. |
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