A man began shouting about God and jumped from his theater seat at the end of “Avengers: Infinity War” Thursday night at the Harkins Mountain Grove 16 in Redlands – leading to erroneous reports about shots fired, police said.

Just after 10 p.m., police started receiving several calls about a man who started “preaching and making odd statements about God,” said Carl Baker, the spokesman for the Police Department. “People panicked and ran out of the theater.”

The man was apparently waving his arms in the air and jumped while shouting.

“As soon as the movie was over, this guy starts yelling, preaching and talking about repenting from our sins,” said Susie Arias of Highland, who was at the theater at 27481 San Bernardino Ave.

“At first, I thought it was a joke and some people even started yelling back at him, but then when he starts taking about guaranteeing our right to heaven and paying for our sins today, I think that’s when mass hysteria hit and some people started running out,” she said.

Arias said she watched people leap over the railing of the upper seats of the auditorium in an attempt to escape.

“I saw the girl … fainted, and someone was dragging her out; another girl in front of me was limping and going into a panic attack,” she said.

One woman who jumped over the railing to the ground 20 feet below was trampled by several people scrambling out of the theater, police said. She was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center.

Several people apparently believed the man may have been armed, and as they fled they shouted at Harkins employees that the man had a gun, Arias said.

As police made their way to the theater, another caller said that 30 to 40 shots had been fired – prompting police to dispatch all available officers and paramedics to the scene, officials said.

Arriving officers quickly determined no shots were fired.

Officers detained a man, later identified as Michael Ray Webber, 28, of Colton. He told officers he was not under the influence, and he said he preaches about God all the time at the end of movies. He said he specifically held up his hands so that people would see that he was not armed, police said.

After checking his home and not finding evidence that Webber would be a threat, he was arrested on suspicion of offensive language likely to cause a violent reaction, officials said.

Arias said on Friday theater staffers offered the movie-goers free tickets.

“We will be going back later today,” she said.