Christopher Gregor, the New Jersey dad accused of killing his 6-year-old son by forcing him to endure a grueling treadmill workout, was seen carrying the boy’s limp body into a hospital shortly before he died.

Harrowing video played during Gregor’s trial showed him carrying Corey Micciolo’s tiny, battered body as he approached the front desk at Southern Ocean Medical Center on April 2, 2021.

Corey barely moved as he slumped in his dad’s arms — and took “dire, almost end-of-life breaths,” according to court testimony from William Doyle, a registered nurse on duty at the time.

Hospital security footage shows Christopher Gregor carrying his 6-year-old son’s limp, barely breathing body into Southern Ocean Medical Center on April 2, 2021, an hour before he died. Court TV

The boy “was not showing any signs that he was verbal,” his head tilting backward as he was brought into an examination room, Doyle said in court, according to the Asbury Park Press.

“He was an all-hands-on-deck situation,” Doyle told the jurors.

The injuries were so severe that Corey suffered a seizure during a CT scan, forcing medical staff to take emergency measures in a doomed attempt to save his life. However, they were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead shortly before 5 p.m.

An initial autopsy found Corey died as a result of blunt force injuries with cardiac and liver contusions with acute inflammation and sepsis. 

Corey Micciolo, 6, died of his injuries two weeks after his father, Christopher Gregor, 31, was captured on surveillance footage forcing the boy to run at high speed on a treadmill. Family handout

Two weeks earlier, surveillance video showed Gregor, 31, putting his son through a sickening workout at the Atlantic Heights Clubhouse fitness center — allegedly because he thought his son was too fat.

He put Corey on the treadmill and rapidly increased the speed and the incline until the boy flew off.

Gregor is seen picking him up and putting him back on the belt, but the child falls another half-dozen times and continues desperately struggling to keep up until his dad eventually lowers the speed.

Christopher Gregor, 31, is facing murder charges in the boy’s death after a forensic pathologist determined the extent of his injuries constituted a homicide. Thomas P. Costello / Asbury Park Press / USA TODAY NETWORK

Testifying at the trial at Ocean County Superior Court, Corey’s mother, Breanna Micciolo — who was in a custody dispute with Gregor — said she later noticed “odd-shaped” bruises on her son.

She said she took him to a pediatrician, who found no real cause for concern — although the boy revealed the nature of the alleged abuse to the doctor.

The day he died at the hospital, Corey had woken up from a nap nauseated, stumbling around and slurring his words.

Gregor, of Barnegat, NJ, was arrested three months later and charged with child neglect, based in part on the video.

A forensic pathologist determined in September 2021 that the boy’s death was a homicide due to chronic child abuse, including blunt force injuries to his chest and abdomen and a laceration to his heart.

Gregor was arrested on murder charges connected to Corey’s death on March 9, 2022.

The dad turned down a 30-year plea offer and now faces life in prison if convicted.

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