'It Could Have Been Us:' Couple Describes Earlier Run in With 'Bothered' Curtis Reeves Who Shot Man at Movie Theater Over Texting
A couple who say they came under the angry glare of former police captain Curtis Reeves Jr., 71, just two weeks ago for texting in the same movie theater where he shot dead Chad Oulson, 43, during an argument over the same offense say it chills them to think they could have suffered the same fate.
Michael and Jamira Dixon explained in a CNN report that they believe Reeves, who is now facing a life sentence after being charged with second-degree murder for shooting Oulson in the chest, reported them to the theater management for texting in late December and he seemed upset by their actions.
The couple explained that on Dec. 28, 2013, during a matinee showing of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" a man they now identify as Reeves was inside the Cobb Theater's Grove 16 & CineBistro and he appeared "bothered by everything."
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Jamira Dixon said she was with her husband, three of her children and a niece when an usher approached her and told her if she didn't put her phone away she would have to leave the theater. She had sent a text at 2:20 p.m.
The man she identified as Reeves, she said, was sitting in the same row and was seen talking with the usher afterward and he was gesticulating toward her and her family. She says she is certain it was Reeves because she made a special note of his face just in case she needed to make a complaint about him to theater management.
"As the (day) went on he just glared and glared and was grumbling the whole (time)," Jamira Dixon said.
Michael Dixon added, "I don't think he saw much of the movie."
Jamira also recalled that another man's cell phone went off during the movie, and the man she identified as Reeves snapped at him saying: "Can you please, please turn that off. It's really disturbing me."
She explained that she learned about Monday's shooting while she was driving and when she saw a picture of the shooter she had to pull her car over.
"It sent chills down my spine," she said. "I knew it was that person that I had an encounter with a few weeks prior."
When she showed the picture to her husband he also agreed.
"I was, like, that is the same guy," Michael said. "It could have happened to us. We were in the same exact position."
