A - it wasn’t a perfectly reasonable request the previews hadn’t started yet.
B - telling a busy body to butt out isn’t threat of dire physical harm.
They also show Nicole Oulson’s badly injured hand after she was shot trying to deflect the bullet that killed her husband.
Video from the scene appears to show Oulson snatching Reeves’ popcorn off his lap and throwing it at him. Reeves responds instantaneously with a single, fatal gunshot.
I believe you may be wrong.