BELLE GLADE -- If only life were as easy to stop and start as the security-camera video at the Alabama Georgia Grocery Store.

You could freeze it the moment just before the front door swung open at 32 seconds after 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 2.

Before a man in a dark blue hoodie and a gray-white bandanna over his face, covering all but a sliver of his eyes, takes four giant steps into the small convenience store, swings around the L-shaped counter, points a revolver into a store clerk's face and yells, "Give it up. Give it up!"

Stop the video. At that moment, two lives are still intact.

Jimmy McMillan, 49, is still the owner of a store built by his great-grandfather more than 70 years ago. He is still the prize-winning bass fisherman who leaves his morning's catch in a cooler in his truck and tells customers to help themselves.

Before the video rolls, he is still the father of three boys, handing out bread and milk on credit, like his kin had for decades, to struggling families in a town with 40 percent unemployment. He is still one of the few white faces in a predominantly black section of a town that has seen its share of racial distrust.

This very moment is precious. Because until then, no matter how bad things had gotten, no one from the Glades had ever dared violence against this store.

Certainly not 19-year-old Corey Graham Jr. Before this moment, coaches and teammates on his Glades Central football team still remember him as the last person they can imagine being accused of what happens in the next 39 seconds of video.

They'll recall Graham as being too soft to be one of the great football players, despite his 6-foot-2, 280-pound frame, although he could've played ball at a small college.

Teachers will remember him as a cooperative B-student if not a bookworm - although his Facebook profile picture shows him at a school desk, smiling up at the camera with a textbook open in front of him. He has never gotten anything more than a traffic ticket, and for all anyone knows at this moment, he's still enrolled at Palm Beach State College.

But then the video rolls. At 32 seconds after 6:30 a.m., the man in the hoodie charges through the door, setting into motion a result that, unlike the tape, can never be unwound. The moment is gone.

Jimmy McMillan will be shot to death.

And Corey Graham Jr., arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office for the crime, could lose his life on Death Row.

Roll the video back, just a bit, to Christmas of 2011.

Jimmy McMillan and his three sons are gathered around a photo of a friend holding up a fish. They weren't looking at the catch. They were trying to figure out, with just a couple of background markers, where on 730-square mile Lake Okeechobee it had been caught.

"That was Christmas dinner conversation," remembers Connie Deaton, McMillan's only sibling.

Jimmy McMillan knew everything there was to know about Lake Okeechobee. A quiet rural life of fishing on the lake and raising a family were the reasons he turned down going to college to remain in Belle Glade and run his family's store.

In the 1940s, his great-grandparents moved from Chipley, a speck of a farming town in the panhandle near the Alabama-Georgia-Florida border, to the fertile land of Belle Glade.

They bought property and farmed the land, selling produce in the store they built in the center of town along with an adjacent apartment complex, which still stands.