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_Published 2014-02-08. Exclusive Surveillance Video Shows Theater Shooting_


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## Transcript

>> The video is grainy, but it captures a powerful scene. It comes from the camera mounted on the wall of the theater, and it starts with the lights on, people taking their seats for a matinee of the movie " Lone Survivor ." Keep your eye on the far right side. The man in the white- looking shirt is allegedly 71- year- old retired police officer Curtis Reeves. His wife is next to him. After the lights dim, the cameras continue to see in infrared. Watch as Reeves appears to lean toward the front row. Prosecutors say he's complaining to 43- year- old Chad Oulson about using his cell phone. Oulson is just out of view.

Reeves leans back then leans forward again when prosecutors say Oulson said something back. Moments later, Reeves gets up and leaves. Eyewitnesses say he claimed he was reporting Oulson to management. When he returns, witnesses say the men argued again, more loudly. Now watch this. You see an arm, said to be Oulson's, reaches into view and plucks Reeves' popcorn out of his hand and throws it back at him. At nearly the same time, you can see Reeves thrust his right hand forward. Prosecutors say that's the moment Reeves fired a gun, pulled from his pocket. Let's look at that again, slowed down. Oulson allegedly yanking the popcorn and throwing at Reeves and Reeves responding by firing his weapon.

You can see the gunshot shock wave dislodged dust around the camera, appearing like snow. The defense played its own enhanced version of the same video. In it someone seems to throw a glowing object that appears to hit Reeves and fall to the floor. The defense says that was Chad Oulson throwing his cell phone. Reeves told police he thought Oulson had struck him. Reeves did an audiotape interview with detectives just an hour and a half after the shooting. In it, the former SWAT officer says the younger, aggressive Oulson frightened him.

>> So what made you shoot him?

>> Well, I guess he scared the hell out of me.

>> Okay. I thought the guy was fixing to beat the [ unk ] out of me.

>> Also caught on the video: an off- duty deputy can be seen moments after the shot taking control of Reeves' gun and remaining with him until police arrived. At the hearing, he testified to a conversation he overheard between Reeves and his wife.

>> She postured, and she said, " That was no cause to shoot anyone ." And then he leaned back around, stuck his finger out, you know, as to, you know, scold her and said, " You shut your [ unk ] mouth and don't say another word ."- Nicole Oulson, Chad's widow, was also wounded by the shot that killed her husband. And as the judge announced his decision that Reeves was to remain behind bars until trial, she seemed barely able to keep her emotions in check.

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