Two gunmen ran up and pumped five bullets into a man in a northwest Toronto housing complex before fleeing in a getaway vehicle driven by a third man, a prosecutor said in his opening address at a first-degree murder trial.

“There is no hesitation. There is no confrontation between these parties. There is no altercation,” Crown attorney Aaron Del Rizzo told the Superior Court jury Monday.

Jurors were told they will see a preponderance of video surveillance over the next few weeks showing that it was the three defendants who killed Nnamdi Ogba, 26, on March 16, 2018. The electrical engineer was ambushed and gunned down walking to his car.

Abdullahi Mohamed, 24, Abdirahman Islow, 29, and Trevaughan Miller, 24, have all pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors allege that just after 11 p.m., the trio left 25 Martha Eaton Way, an apartment building in northwest Toronto, got into a cab, and drove to a parking lot a short distance away. There, they got into a stolen Nissan Rogue and drove to Scarlettwood Court, a Toronto Community Housing complex near Scarlett Road and the Humber River, Del Rizzo told the jury.

They drove to the Scarlettwood Court neighbourhood, circled a roundabout, and left. A short time later, they returned to the back of the complex, where two of the men got out of the car. The driver remained inside and positioned the vehicle pointing out of the complex, Del Rizzo said.

The two shooters, alleged to be Mohamed and Miller, then proceeded into the complex around the same time Ogba left a building and walked to his car.

“He never makes it. These two men walk through the complex, see Mr. Ogba, quicken their pace, run up behind him and shoot him five times. He dies on the street,” Del Rizzo said.

The shooters then fled back to the waiting Nissan Rogue, allegedly driven by Islow, which leaves Scarlettwood Court, and returns to the parking lot.

The surveillance camera footage seized by police also captured the three men returning to Martha Eaton Way, where “their faces are clearly visible” as they walk into the apartment building, Del Rizzo said.

He asked the jury to “pay close attention to the video when it plays, ask yourselves, what range of emotions are going through these men. Are they displaying any surprise or shock about the event that just transpired?”

The jury spent most of Monday watching surveillance footage compilations before, during and after the shooting, with Toronto police Det. Const. Jason Brady drawing juror attention to distinctive clothing and head coverings worn by the men.

Jurors also saw footage allegedly of the three accused, post-shooting, that showed one of them skipping away from the getaway car, dancing and playfully rubbing his friend’s head.

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Prosecutor Paul Zambonini ended the first day showing mugshots of the three accused on the day of their arrest, March 29, 2018.

The trial continues Tuesday.