Jayesh Prajapati: Grant De Patie

Midtown Toronto Shell Gas Station Dept: Jayesh Prajapati, 44, died last Saturday night at the midtown Toronto Shell gas station where he worked after he was struck and dragged by an SUV driver who had filled up with $112 worth of gas and fled without paying. Gas-and-dash deaths across Canada: Grant de Patie, a 25-year-old gas station attendant, was killed in 2005 when a teenage driver refused to pay $12 for gas in Maple Ridge, B.C. His death prompted Grant's Law, a provincial law that implemented the pay-before-you-pump system at all B.C. gas stations. Jimmy Wiebe, 50, was shot during a night-time robbery while working alone at a Shell station in Saskatoon in 2011. The province is considering passing Jimmy's Law to protect workers in such situations. Hashem Atifeh Rad, 62, was killed when he tried to stop a driver from leaving without paying at a Petro-Canada station in Mississauga, Ont., last year, according to CBC. Prajapati s wife and brother-in-law have alleged that Prajapati was expected to pay out of his wages for motorists who drove off without paying for gas and the death of a Toronto gas station attendant who died trying to stop a man from driving away without paying for fuel has cast a spotlight on working conditions for vulnerable workers, even prompting an Ontario MPP to propose a new law to protect them. Prajapati, an immigrant from India who was married with a child, died at the scene. Police have issued a warrant for Max Edwin Tutiven, 39, who is a suspect in the case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.