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Cyclist Danna Osbourne spotted a drunken man laying on Nuthatch Lane “positioned like a ‘starfish,'” taking up half the lane as she was riding to her Cabbagetown home at 3:55 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2018.

The conscious man — Michael Watts — assured Osbourne that he was “okay.”

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It was the last word Watts would utter.

Five minutes later, Watts was run over by a vehicle and dragged for several metres suffering fatal blunt force injuries, according to police court documents that outlined the investigation.

Watts, 57 and homeless, succumbed to those injuries within 70 minutes at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Initially, investigators thought Watts’ death was a homicide, but later concluded he was a victim of a motor vehicle collision, the document alleged.

Two people phoned police to say they discovered the dying Watts at the scene just south of Doctor O Lane.

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Last month Toronto Police charged one of those callers, Michelle Shemilt, with leaving the scene of the deadly accident and criminal negligence causing death.