Reeves, who was 71 at the time of shooting, is charged with aggravated battery and murder in the second degree, which in Florida means an unlawful killing stemming from “an act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life.”

“Of course, in a perfect world, should Chad Oulson have grabbed a bag of popcorn and tossed it onto the defendant? Of course not,” Scott Rosenwasser, the Pinellas-Pasco assistant state attorney, told the jury Monday. “But … you can’t shoot and kill another person over that.”

Defense lawyer Dino Michaels disputed the idea that Oulson was killed over popcorn, arguing that Reeves’s age made him vulnerable and that he felt genuinely endangered. He told the jury that “something happened” to threaten Reeves before the popcorn toss — that he was punched or hit with Oulson’s cellphone, which prosecutors deny.