DADE CITY, Fla. — Eight years after he fired a pistol inside a Florida movie theater, a jury late Friday found retired Tampa police Capt. Curtis Reeves not guilty of murder in the death of Chad Oulson.
The panel of four men and two women took about 3 1/2 hours to acquit Reeves, apparently heeding defense arguments that Reeves killed Oulson in self-defense.
The late-night verdict punctuated one of the Tampa Bay area’s longest-running and most closely watched criminal cases — one that persisted through a 2017 "stand your ground" self-defense hearing, appeals, court delays and finally a three-week trial.
