In West Chapel, Florida there is more action and violence taking place in the theater than on the screen.

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. (AP) — An argument over texting in a Florida movie theater ended with a retired Tampa police captain fatally shooting a man sitting in front of him, authorities said.

Curtis Reeves, 71 the former cop got tight jaws when the guy sitting in front of him was texting during the movie and shot the guy and his wife in front of him. Reeves has been charged with 2nd degree murder.

The altercation began when Reeves asked 43-year-old Chad Oulson to stop texting during the movie. Oulson told Reeves he was texting with his 3-year-old daughter.

Not satisfied with the answer, Reeves took out a gun and shot Oulson’s wife through her hand as she tried to protect her husband, the same bullet went into the chest of her husband.

A witness Alex Cummings said “I can’t believe people would bring a pistol, a gun, to a movie,”. “I can’t believe they would argue and fight and shoot one another over a cellphone.”

Cummings, who said he was a combat Marine in Vietnam, said Oulson fell onto him and his son. “Blood started coming out of his mouth, it was just a very bad scene.”

Oulson and his wife were taken by ambulance to a Tampa-area hospital, where the Chad Oulson died. His wife’s injuries were not considered life-threatening.

The shooter Reeves was a captain when he retired from the department in 1993, established the agency’s first tactical response team and co-incidentally was on the board of a neighboring county’s Crime Stoppers organization. The old timer must have flipped out.

What a waste of a mans life all because he was texting during a movie.

It is getting where no one is completely safe anywhere.