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Man crushed in Qns. leaves kin in Mexico

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A charity worker fatally pinned between his own truck and another while delivering milk to a Queens school leaves behind a wife and daughter in his native Mexico, his former landlord said Tuesday.

Florentino Cruseno Morales, 49, was making the dropoff to those in need during the coronaviru­s crisis at the Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens on Metropolit­an Ave. near 125th St. in Kew Gardens, when he died early Monday.

According to police, the driver was directing a coworker to back the truck up, but didn’t step out of

A man was fatally shot in his 14th-floor apartment in a Brooklyn housing developmen­t Tuesday, cops said.

Police found Angel Medina, 62, just after 2:50 p.m. in the Langston Hughes Houses on Sutter Ave. in Brownsvill­e.

“He’s dead inside the apartment. He was shot in the stomach,” a police source said. its way, and got pinned between his own truck and another.

“He was a nice guy, always joking,“said Eduardo Hernandez, 54, a pizzamaker and Morales’ former landlord. “He was a hardworkin­g guy.“

Morales (inset) had a wife and daughter in Guerrero, Mexico, and a grown son in New York, Hernandez said outside Morales’ former Corona home.

The victim’s wife was at home and made a desperate call to 911, sources said. Medina knew the shooter — a 19-year-old man who lives on the same floor, cops said.

He fled the apartment with a mask on, and police scoured the building in an attempt to find him.

Police made no immediate arrests.

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