Death Due to Moviehouse Texting: Cop guns down man for texting- claims Popcorn assault "self- defense"!

Movie texters beware.....

The shooting occurred inside The Grove 16 theater in Wesley Chapel at around 1:30 p.m. 

A 71-year-old retired Tampa police captain Curtis Reeves Jr., is in custody after allegedly shooting and killing 43-year-old Chad Oulsen and injuring his wife over a texting dispute during a Mark Wahlberg war movie. He was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday in a Florida court.The retired cop's  lawyer said in court that Reeves "had every right to defend himself" after the man hurled a bag of popcorn at him.

Curtis Reeves, 71, appeared for a bond hearing Tuesday in a Florida court. A judge ordered him held without bail.

According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Reeves shot Chad Oulson with a .380-calber handgun after a verbal and physical confrontation. Chad was pronounced dead at a hospital while his wife, Nichole, was treated for a gunshot wound to her hand.

Chad Oulson, seen here with his wife, was fatally shot in the chest after he allegedly
refused to stop sending text messages in the theater. His wife was shot in the hand.

Reeves and his wife were sitting behind the Oulsons as the preview trailers were rolling just before the showing of “Lone Survivor,” the Mark Wahlberg movie about a failed 2007 Navy Seal raid in Afghanistan. Reeves asked Chad several times to stop, to no avail. He then left the theater to complain to the theater's management before returning to his seat. The two got into a verbal altercation upon his return which shifted to a physical confrontation. It was not clear if the physical confrontation involved the Popcorn "assault" mentioned by the lawyer.

“Lone Survivor,” the Mark Wahlberg movie about a failed 2007 Navy Seal raid in Afghanistan

Then the suspect, Reeves, pulled out a gun. Only one shot was fired. Nichole was wounded in the hand when she grabbed her husband as Reeves pulled the trigger.

Reeves retired as a captain from the Tampa Police Department in 1993. He helped set up the department's first SWAT team.

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Death by "Atomic Wedgie"!

A wedgie occurs when a person's underwear or other garments are wedged between the buttocks. When performed on males, this can be dangerous, potentially causing testicular or scrotal damage. In fact, an incident in 2004 involving a ten-year-old boy required reattachment of a testicle to the scrotum!  The Atomic Wedgie entails hoisting the waistband of the receiver's underwear up and over their head. 

from Atomic Wedgies, Wet Willies, & Other Acts of Roguery

Classic bullying maneuver: This grab from comedy television program
 'Saturday Night Live' shows schoolyard bullies giving their victiman 'atomic wedgie' 

While a wedgie is usually done as a childish prank,a form of bullying or fodder for comedy entertainment material,  this time it was done  with deadly consequence!

Brad Davis has been booked on a homicide complaint in the death of Denver St. Clair. 

According to Robert Medley of the Okalahoman  ,  authorities have arrested a man in the bizarre killing of his stepfather, who was found with his own underwear stretched around his head and neck. The stepson called it an “atomic wedgie.”

Brad Davis, 33, former Marine, was arrested on a murder complaint Tuesday evening in the death of Denver Lee St. Clair, 58. St. Clair was the husband of Tressia St. Clair, Davis' mother.

Victim: Denver Lee St. Clair, 58, found dead in his Oklahoma home with underpants pulled over his head 

According to a probable cause affidavit, Davis said he and St. Clair fought and he thought St. Clair was dead, . He said St. Clair asked him to come over for drinks. The men began arguing and Davis told officers that St. Clair “came at him,” and began exchanging blows. He hit St. Clair's head, causing him to lose consciousness,  grabbed his stepfather's underwear and gave him an “atomic wedgie” by pulling the underwear over his stepfather's head.

The cause of death has been determined to be from blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation. The death has been ruled a homicide.

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