The accused gunman in the Eaton Centre shooting wanted "vengeance" when he opened fire inside the busy mall, the Crown prosecutor in the first-degree murder trial said Thursday.

Prosecutor John Cisorio took Christopher Husbands frame by frame through the security surveillance video footage taken on the day the 25-year-old opened fire on June 2, 2012 in the mall's crowded food court. The shooting left two people dead and five others injured.

Husbands has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of aggravated assault. The Toronto man has previously told the court that moments before the gunshots rang out he believed two men were going to shoot at him first.

"I was afraid, I was panicking," Husbands said.

He has also previously said that a stabbing which nearly killed him several months earlier had left him wary of crowds and fearful that his attackers would return to harm him again. He said he carried the gun because it made him feel safer.

But according to the prosecution, the shooting was deliberate.

"No one had shot at you. You're not ducking from a gunshot," Cisorio suggested to Husbands on Thursday.

"Someone might be opening fire," he responded.

During the cross-examination on Thursday, Cisorio also paused the video at the mark where Husbands appears to be standing over one of his victims who had already been shot. He is seen firing four more shots at close range.

Cisorio tells Husbands: "When you’re shooting…that's very targeted."

Husbands responded that "it looks targeted, but I didn’t plan to target anyone."

The Crown then suggested that the shooting was a revenge killing.

"What was running through your blood was vengeance…The dish you served up in the food court was revenge, wasn’t it Mr. Husbands?" Cisorio asked Husbands.

He denied it was a revenge shooting. "That's not correct," he replied.

The trial continues.

With a report from CTV Toronto's Austin Delaney