Conviction tossed in heist

“This helper gets out and directs him where to back up, and the driver backs close to the truck,” Eli said.

But surveillance video shows the victim, working as a helper, not moving out of the way as the truck backed up even though an automatic alert was beeping. “Maybe he thought the driver wasn’t going to back all the way up,” said Eli. “I don’t know.”

A volunteer ambulance service was called to the scene. A defibrillator was 58th St., on the edge of Rockaway Community Park in Edgemere, just before 12:30 a.m., cops said.

The victim, believed to be from Brooklyn, was rushed by EMTs to used, and “and I believe they got a pulse,” Elis said.

But the victim, his Marine Corps hat left behind at the scene, died at Jamaica Hospital. Cops identified him as Morales Cruseno Florentino. He lived in Corona.

Eli said the victim and the driver had been delivering milk to the school twice a week the past two months — and had the routine down pat.

“It’s the craziest thing to me,” he said of the deadly mishap.

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, where he died at 12:58 a.m., authorities said. His name was not immediately released.

There were no arrests.

A man accused of shooting two cops in an armored car heist had his conviction overturned Monday after more than 20 years in prison, but he still faces what could amount to a death sentence on a lesser weapons possession charge.

That’s because Robert Majors is serving time in a prison with the state’s fourthhighest number of coronavirus cases and has a serious underlying medical condition. So while the reversal shaves decades off Majors’ sentence, it may not be enough time to avoid paying the ultimate price.

Majors, 54 (inset), was convicted in 2001 of attempted murder, weapons possession and armed robbery after a Queens judge determined that he was one of three men who, in May 1997, robbed an armored truck in Flushing and shot 48 times at an off-duty NYPD officer and a retired cop who were guarding the loot. The two guards were left bloody and seriously injured after the shootout, but both survived.

New evidence backed up his claim that someone else was involved in the heist. And Majors’ former attorneys said they never received a sworn affidavit by an informant identifying another suspect named as one of the perpetrators.