Mystery death of student in B’klyn

AN 18-YEAR-OLD college student from Harlem was found dead behind a Brooklyn apartment building, and neither investigators nor his mom know who — or what — killed him.

A porter discovered Amadou Abakar’s body about 4:30 p.m. Sunday while cleaning an alley leading to the rear courtyard of the Bedford-Stuyvesant building, police sources said Wednesday.

There was bruising on his forehead and knuckles, and he had a hemorrhage inside his skull, but the city medical examiner ruled the injuries did not suggest a deadly level of force. A cause of death has not yet been determined.

Abakar’s cell phone and wallet were found next to his body and money remained in his pocket, sources said. Police are looking for a man who may have been at the scene.

Abakar’s mother said she has no idea why he was in Brooklyn.

“I don’t know why my soon took off to Brooklyn,” she said. “How he got to Brooklyn, I don’t know.”

Police believe Abakar possibly died hours before he was found at the building on Rochester Ave. near Lincoln Place.

“I stood here for two hours looking at him, thinking, that could’ve been my son,” said Lindale Craddock, 56.

Craddock had been at the rear of the building earlier that morning, but spotted nothing.

“When I went back around 4:30 to remove the garbage I saw him lying there,” he said. “I thought maybe he passed out or something. I had no idea he was dead.

“I tried to make contact to see if he was all right, and then I realized he wasn’t breathing.”

Abakar lived miles away in the Drew-Hamilton Houses in Harlem, and graduated high school at 16. He was a student at Hostos Community College.

“He was a good kid,” his mother said.

Cops are looking into the possibility that his death is linked to a January shooting in the Bronx. He and another man were fighting over a gun when it went off, striking his opponent in the hand. Abakar was busted a month later, but the case was later dismissed, sources said.