

Reeves said that had wished he would have moved to a different seat in the theater. Vivian Reeves, center, leaves court with her daughter, Jennifer Shaw, left, moments after the verdict is read last month at a courthouse in Tampa 'Chad may be gone, but he will never be forgotten, and I will use my voice to try and make sure no one has to experience what myself and my family had to go through,' she said in a statement.

'I will not just accept this result lying down,' Nicole said. 'I want everyone to know that even though they tried to make Chad out to be a monster and the aggressor, he was an amazing man, husband, son, brother, friend and father,' she said. Last month, Oulson's widow, Nicole, said that the jury 'got it wrong.' Oulson, although he was in charge of what happened that night,' Reeves said.

It was not something that I would ever want to happen to Mr. 'I understand that and one of the things that my family did, and I asked for our church to do, to keep the Oulson family in mind. Reeves was asked how he felt that Oulson's daughter, would not be around to walk his own daughter down the aisle. Reeves said he has embarked on a 'new life' after he had his ankle monitor removed by his young granddaughter. Speaking to Fox 13, Reeves said in the days since his acquittal, he has found a new lease of life having attending his daughter's wedding the following day and getting his granddaughter to help him remove his ankle bracelet. It was a very emotional time, not just for me but for my whole family,' Reeves said. 'I had the appropriate size screwdriver to get that ankle monitor off of my ankle, so we went to my daughter's house and my granddaughter took it off for me. The bracelet meant he has spent most of the last eight years on house arrest.
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This photo released by the attorney's office shows Curtis Reeves handcuffed in the movie theater where he shot Chad Oulson in 2014 And with the explosive behavior, both verbally and physically, there was absolutely no alternative to that.' 'I've never been faced with someone that far out of control or that much rage at one particular time. 'If I had, there's a good chance I wouldn't be here today.' 'I I just went to a movie with my wife and that's all I intended. 'I wish that none of this would have happened at all, but I don't feel like an instigator,' Reeves said. Speaking on ABC Nightline on Tuesday night, Reeves, a former SWAT commander, said that he wished the fight had not taken place but believes he had no choice but to respond with deadly force. Reeves was able to argue self-defense under the state's Stand Your Ground law, which allows for the use of deadly force in the face of mortal danger or fear of serious injury. A retired Florida cop who shot dead a fellow moviegoer in 2014 and who was acquitted of the charges has defended the decisions he made against what he says was a 'vicious attack.'Ĭurtis Reeves, 79, a former Tampa police captain, was found not guilty of second-degree murder after fatally shooting Chad Oulson, 43, while in a movie theater in 2014.
