We’ve come to know this portrait so well from countless media stories — and now that photo of Karolina “Caroline” Huebner-Makurat, the beautiful blonde mother of two, is smiling eerily from video monitor after video monitor throughout the downtown courtroom.

Her family gazes at her. The jury does, too. But not Damian Hudson, the man now on trial for her murder. The admitted gunman — whose stray bullet struck the Riverdale mom crossing Queen St. E. — keeps his eyes downcast.

Hudson, 34, has admitted firing the bullet that killed Huebner-Makurat but has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder.

On July 7, 2023, the married 44-year-old senior training manager for Air Canada was walking to meet a friend for lunch at Pasaj. She would never make it.

In his opening statement, Crown attor

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