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We’re learning more about a retired Tampa police officer accused of shooting and killing a man in Wesley Chapel movie theater, reportedly in a dispute over noisy texting.
Curtis Reeves, 71, left the Tampa Police Department in 1993, where a spokesperson said he helped start the department’s first Tactical Response Team.
“We are not aware of any contact with the department since his departure more than 20 years ago,” spokesperson Laura McElroy said in a media release.
After working at TPD, Reeves went to work doing security at Busch Gardens.
He currently has a son who serves as a Tampa police officer. Mathew Reeves has been with the department since 2003. He has nine letters of appreciation and an excellent duty award in his file, the department said.
Reeves is charged with 2nd degree murder.
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This retired officer sounds like he was off the hook, but the fact that his son’s personnel record is mentioned is not right at all. It doesn’t matter that his son’s record is a very positive one; there is something wrong with the son’s record even being mentioned since he was not involved in this incident.
I’m pretty sure most of us have unstable family members, and we shouldn’t have to justify our own existence and legitimacy by presenting our files as evidence of innocence for others’ sins.
Noisy texting???