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To: Albion Wilde
I’ve read that Reeves was a bit of a jerk, from neighbor accounts. He even told his wife to shut up while they were being questioned immediately after the shooting. It was reported that he exited the theater and returned. That speaks of premeditation. We lived in Lutz, Wesley Chapel is not too far away.

51 posted on 9/2/2019, 7:30:17 PM by lula (Shine the light of truth Lord, confound the deceiver I pray...AMEN!)
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To: lula
It was reported that he exited the theater and returned. That speaks of premeditation.
I seem to recall reading that five years ago, too—Reeves complained to a theater worker about the guy using a cellphone, but she was unable or unwilling to do anything about it; or perhaps he just told the ticket-taker he needed to go out and come right back. He then went out to his car and got his gun. He also apparently called his son while he was out there — he is the guy you see in the video coming into the row and taking the gun from him after he fired, so he was on his way but too late (if I recall correctly).

There was a note in one of the articles that he was also incensed that the theater wasn’t concerned about someone breaking the cellphone rules. Apparently Reeves thought those requested courtesies were a matter of life and death, because he made the veteran pay with his life.

If my above memories based on the reportage of the time are accurate, it was definitively premeditated, and one of the reasons I’m so steamed over this even now. Bad cops give all the extraordinary, selfless and heroic cops (and even the just-okay cops) a bad name.

52 posted on 9/3/2019, 8:22:42 AM by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. —Douglas MacArthur)

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