Popcorn Shooter Trial Day 5: Defense Begins Its Case-in-Chief, Defendant’s Adult Children Testify

Yesterday was the fifth day of testimony in the murder trial of Curtis Reeves, the retired Tampa SWAT Captain who shot and killed Chad Oulson in a local movie theater in January 2014 after the two men had a verbal altercation that became physical. This was the day the defense began to present its case-in-chief, and calling its first witnesses. Perhaps ironically, the first two defense witnesses were actually police officers involved in the investigation, and the third was the man...