He made it home from the Iraq war just in time for Christmas. She was looking forward to a night out with her husband after so much time apart.

But a group of teenagers had other plans for Federico and Kalyn Freire, who were assaulted outside a Florida movie theater after asking the teens to be quiet during a movie on Christmas Day.

Federico Freire, a 28-year-old Marine, and Kalyn Freire were attacked after the couple attended a showing of "Little Fockers" on Saturday in Bradenton, Fla.

"The saddest part about it was that this was our first date night together in a long time," Freire's wife, Kalyn, said in an interview Wednesday with FoxNews.com. "We were just looking to spend some time together."

Freire, a Florida native stationed at Camp Pendelton in California, said he and his wife asked a group of "obnoxiously loud" teenagers talking on cell phones to "be quiet" during the 8:20 p.m. movie.

"This was my first time back in town from my tour in Iraq," he said.

Freire said that when the disturbance escalated and the group began cursing, his wife called the manager, who asked several of the teenagers to leave the theater.

The couple said they thought the fracas was over until they walked out of the theater and were assaulted by a mob of menacing teenagers.

"On our way out of the movie theater, my wife gets surrounded with about 10 to 15 girls that were about to attack her," Freire told FoxNews.com. "As soon as I saw this I immediately ran and got her out of harm's way."

Freire said he was kicked and punched as he and his wife tried to run from the group.

"I leaned down to grab my purse and there were literally 100 teens around us," Kalyn Freire said, "While the manager was in the corner with his mouth open and not doing anything."

Freire said one bystander stepped forward and told the couple to follow him to his car, saying he could scare the crowd off with a gun. But before the two reached the man's vehicle, one of the teenagers said, "I'm going to knock your wife out," before punching Freire's wife to the ground, the couple said.

Deputies from the Manatee County Sheriff's Department responded to the scene and arrested two 15-year-old brothers and charged them with misdemeanor battery.

According to a police report, three others -- 16-year-old Ishmael Dunbar, 17-year-old Reginald Gardner and 20-year-old Destiny McNeil -- were arrested and charged with felony battery on a law enforcement officer and trespassing.

"All available units were requested to respond to disperse the crowd for officer safety and to restore order," the police report said. One teenager was stunned by a Taser.

Authorities said the fight attracted about 300 bystanders.

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I am truly ashamed of my fellow American's right now. Over three hundred bystanders and only ONE offered to and tried to help.

Things like this is one of the many reasons I have one or two or even sometimes several weapons on me when I go anywhere.

They bystanders should have been charged with a crime and or atleast ticketed.

it is fortunate they escaped with their lives, I hope the assailants are prosecuted , as a victim of assault myself I know shock can set in and leave people motionless so I dont blame any witnesses

typical in a society, where it has been bred, that each thinks somehow all shall and better go it's own way, and if it does not...

nothing but manic, irrational narcissistic unsane behaviour is going to be created.

Attack on Marine at Florida Theater Comes Months After Brother's Death at Navy Hospital

The recent attack on a Marine and his wife outside a Florida movie theater is the latest indignity suffered by a family still reeling over the accidental death this year of a brother at a U.S. naval hospital.

Federico Freire, a 28-year-old Marine, and his wife, Kalyn, were attacked Saturday by a mob of unruly teenagers after the couple asked the group to be quiet during a movie at a Bradenton, Fla., cinema, as FoxNews.com reported Wednesday.

Police found Freire and his wife "battered" in the theater parking lot, and they arrested four juveniles and one adult in the violent altercation.

For Freire, who had just returned from Iraq, the melee that knocked his wife to the ground was the latest woe for a family still devastated by the death of his brother, Lance Cpl. Ezequiel Freire.

Ezequiel Freire, a 20-year-old Marine who spent eight months in Afghanistan, died Feb. 13 after doctors served him a deadly cocktail of narcotics and sedatives as he awaited cancer treatment at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in Virginia, his family said.

"I was the one who found him dead," Federico Freire said in an interview Thursday. "He was my brother, my best friend."

He added: "I think that day I died with him."

The younger Freire returned from combat duty unscathed in November 2009, but he later complained to family of pain in his heart, his sister Karina Piovera told FoxNews.com. Piovera said medical tests later showed that her brother had a large mass in his chest believed to be Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer.

Freire was transported to Portsmouth Naval Medical Center where a team of 20 doctors treated him with eight drugs -- some for pain, others for anxiety and sleeplessness, Piovera said.

On the afternoon of Feb. 12, Piovera said her brother received a dose of fentanyl, a powerful narcotic, in combination with painkillers oxycodone and OxyContin already in his system that she said proved lethal. She said Freire's death certificate states that he died from "multi drug toxicity."

"It was a cocktail of death," Piovera said. "Their negligence killed my brother."

Piovera and Freire added that their brother was "never on a heart monitor" and said family members repeatedly expressed concern to hospital staff that he was over-medicated.

Adding to the family's devastation, Freire said he couldn't pursue legal action against the hospital due to the Feres Doctrine, which bars lawsuits from families or service members in malpractice and wrongful death cases.

"The law needs to be changed," Piovera said. "The doctors who took care of him shouldn't be practicing medicine."

"They just got away with murder, whether it was accidental or not," added Freire.

The Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery said Thursday that it could not discuss the treatment Freire received or the cause of death due to patient privacy laws.

In an e-mail statement sent to FoxNews.com, a Navy spokesman, Capt. Cappy Surette of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, said, "We are very saddened by the loss of Lance Cpl. Freire and we extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends during these difficult times.

"The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has conducted an investigation into the death" and "the results of that investigation have been turned over to the hospital for review."

But the statement adds that the results of such "quality assurance investigations" are "not releasable per Title 10, United States Code Section 1102."

Surette said, however, that any doctor found unable to practice medicine "safely" will "typically have his privileges suspended or revoked, be reported to the NPDB (National Practitioner Data Bank) and be recommended for separation."

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I wish the bystanders could get prosecuted also.

what law is there against doing nothing? unless there was inciting or instigating going on,, I dont agree people should be persecuted for being afraid or staying safe...

Its times like this when a nice fully automatic Uzi would come in handy.

I am no fan of guns, but I do understand fear and the impulse to survive in the moment. I think these people were reasonably afraid and those 'teenagers' are fortunate to have escaped with their lives as well.

A simple handgun fired once in the air would have backed them off.