Colleagues said the 62-year-old gas jockey, known to them as Hashem, tried to stop the fleeing motorist at about 5 p.m. Thursday, grabbed onto the car handle and tried to open the door.

My first real part-time job was at the neighbourhood gas station in the small town of Otterburn Park, Que. It was so long ago that the job is now virtually extinct. More Jonathan Crowe ...