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A pair of Brooklyn deli workers fatally beat a “neighborhood nuisance” and smacked him in the head with a baton during a deadly scuffle on Monday night, according to police and sources.
Gerry Hill, a 59-year-old Bushwick local with more than two dozen busts on his rap sheet, clashed with the two workers at Royal Deli & Grill shortly after 7 p.m. Monday and then ran home and died, cops and sources said.
The deli workers, who have not been charged, were later taken into custody for questioning — but Bushwick locals told The Post that Hill was a known troublemaker in the neighborhood for years.
“If they had a petition to let the deli workers out of jail, I would sign it,” one area resident said. “For years we have been having problems with him. He and his brothers terrorize this neighborhood.
“I got nothing nice to say,” he added. “It’s just a f–ked up situation.”
Records show that Hill was most recently charged with assault on July 25 after allegedly slugging the victim in the face and back on Knickerbocker Avenue, and was released without bail.
According to sources, Hill has been busted a total of 26 times.
On Monday, Hill allegedly got into a beef with the two deli workers — a 48-year-old man and a 37-year-old man — and was struck in the head with a baton during the scuffle.
He allegedly stumbled home to his Jefferson Street apartment, where he collapsed, the sources said.
Hill’s brothers tried to revive him and called 911, and he was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 8 p.m. according to police.
The two suspects were then taken into custody at the 83rd Precinct.
Meanwhile, Hill’s brother disputed neighbors’ claim about his local rep.
“That narrative that they’re talking about my brother right now, like he was a thief, a robber and like a thug, he definitely wasn’t,” Christopher Hill said Tuesday. “I want everybody to know my brother was the kindest person in the world. If he was your friend, he’s your friend.
“My brother went through a lot,” he said. “All these motherf–kers around here, this bulls–t they talking, that’s not my brother. It’s crazy, because they trying to make my brother like he was a f–ing thug and he wasn’t a thug.”
Additional reporting by Amanda Woods
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