Trial begins in 2015 gas and dash death
Posted Apr 24, 2017 12:08 pm.
Last Updated Apr 24, 2017 4:00 pm.
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CALGARY – An Alberta jury has been told that a Calgary gas station worker was only on the fourth shift of her new job when she was killed by a driver trying to get away after stealing fuel.
Crown prosecutor Jonathan Hak said in his opening address that 35-year-old Maryam Rashidi was trying to “right a wrong” when she chased a truck onto the Trans-Canada Highway and then stood in front of it in June 2015.
Hak says Rashidi was trying to get the driver to pay for the diesel fuel — and that she even climbed on the truck’s front bumper — but instead the driver swerved the vehicle to make her fall off and then ran her over.
Joshua Cody Mitchell is on trial for second-degree murder.
