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A still from the video is even identified that way: “Mr. Jayesh Prajapati visible at the right front corner of SUV.”

The 44-year-old Indo-Canadian — he had got his Canadian citizenship — had a masters in chemistry but worked at the Shell station to support his wife, Vaishali, and their then-11-year-old son.

It took him two hours by TTC each way to travel to work from the family’s apartment in north Etobicoke.

He was, according to Eglinton-Lawrence MPP Mike Colle, who kindly and quietly showed up at court to support Mrs. Prajapati and who knew Prajapati a little as “that was my gas station,” a lovely man.

After his death, Colle said, people from the big apartment building across the street, who treated Prajapati’s store as their milk store, sang his praises. “If you didn’t have the money for milk, he’d say, ‘I’ll honour you for the next time,’ ” Colle said.

Mrs. Prajapati left the courtroom several times, notably when prosecutors introduced a picture taken near a set of train tracks where her husband’s body dislodged from the SUV and was found.

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His shoes were still on the road, far from the smear his dying had left.

He died of multiple blunt and crush injuries.

The cause of Prajapati’s death is not in dispute at the trial. Nor is the fact that it was the driver of the Isuzu who killed him and that he never stopped the vehicle.

What is up for grabs is whether prosecutors can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Tutiven was the driver and, if they can, whether they can also prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed second-degree murder.

Tutiven, 41, is pleading not guilty.

Though most of the events of that Sept. 15, 2012, night were captured on station surveillance video, the precise moment of contact between Prajapati and the Isuzu is not.

All surveillance depends on camera angles, and as is sometimes the case, there was a tiny gap in coverage.

Video shows Prajapati at the cash in the kiosk, with two paying customers.

It shows him spotting the Isuzu driver get into his car without paying — and at breakneck speed, running through the small store, out the door, between the two customers’ cars and onto the island where the Isuzu had gassed up, and leaping, arms raised, it appears right in front of where the Isuzu was parked.