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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

An afternoon movie date turns deadly when a retired police captain claims he acted in self-defense, but will a jury believe that his life was in danger? See all the evidence as Court TV’s Ted Rowlands takes you from the crime scene to the courtroom in this episode of Victim to Verdict Podcast.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that opinions all are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law

0:09.7

Sensitive topics are discussed. Discretion is advised. It happens so fast.

0:23.0

So, Chad takes a couple's It happened so fast.

0:33.0

Chad takes a couple steps and he collapses.

0:37.0

Well, the first thing I knew popcorn went flying.

0:39.0

And then I thought, oh my God, you shot him.

0:41.0

And what was it that you heard the defendant say?

0:43.5

Throw popcorn in my face.

0:45.6

I was never been that scared before and all alive.

0:48.9

I think I'm saying either no, no, no, or whoa, whoa.

0:52.0

So I think my head was to the right, so he hit him aside. no no or who or who who who who who who who who I'm looking up at this guy and he looked like

0:58.0

a monster standing there. You're going to. Welcome to Victim to Victim to Verdict. I'm Ted Rowlands. On a January afternoon in 2014, an argument over a cell phone and a bag of popcorn

1:27.6

turned deadly at a movie theater in suburban Tampa, Florida. 71-year- old Curtis Reeves, a retired police captain and his

1:35.8

wife Vivian were there in their seats ready to watch the movie Lone Survivor.

1:40.3

Sitting in front of them, 43 year old Chad Olson and his wife, Nicole.

1:45.0

Their three year old daughter Lexi was home of the babysitter.

1:48.0

During the previews, Reeves and Olson started arguing because Olson had his cell phone on a few minutes later.

1:55.0

After throwing a bag of popcorn at Curtis Reeves, Chad Olson was dying of a gunshot wound at the chest.

2:01.0

The former cop claimed he was acting in self-defense. There is

2:06.6

theater surveillance video but is very difficult to see. Prosecutors charged

2:12.0

Curtis Reeves with second-degree murder.

2:14.4

It took eight years, but in February of 2022,

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