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The 73-year-old retired police officer accused of killing a man after an argument over a cell phone

in a movie theater took the stand in his own defense. At that point it was his life for my.

This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

Reeves is using Florida's controversial stand-your-ground law in a hearing hoping to avoid going to trial.

Reeves says he asked Olsen to put his phone away during the movie previews and an argument in suit.

He says Olsen first threw his cell phone at him hitting him in the head before grabbing his

popcorn and throwing that at him as well. He was getting ready to punch me and I perceive that

at some point and that's who the business will go.

It was his life or my life. That's what a retired chief of police says. He shoots a movie

go red dead in a cinema for texting. This is the way it all goes down. Everybody welcome to Crime

Stories. I'm Nancy Grace. Thank you for being with us. I'm stunned right now. About a case

that's coming out of Wesley Chapel. It's very close to Tampa. I've actually gone down there and

looked at this cinema myself to see what it was all about to see the scene. There are wide swathes

of land that is undeveloped. It's beautiful stretch of marsh in Florida. Then suddenly I don't know

jumps up Wesley Chapel and it looks new. You know how you can tell an old subdivision or an old

strip mall versus the new ones. The whole place looks new and the neighborhoods there very very nice

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