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'KILLER GAL'S SICK FB BOAST

Road rager: ‘Don’t make me spank you’

- By TAMAR LAPIN tlapin@nypost.com

A Massachuse­tts woman allegedly shot a driver dead for cutting her off — then bragged on Facebook that she’d warned her victim, “Don’t make me spank you,” according to reports.

Graciela Paulino, 20, was nabbed in Lowell Thursday for killing constructi­on worker Mark Devoe, 34, who may have cut her off as he was coming back from his lunch break, the Boston Globe reported.

A pal who had been in Devoe’s blue Hyundai with him told cops they quickly realized Paulino was trailing them.

When the two men pulled up to a lot near their constructi­on site, Paulino got out of her car and an argument erupted between her and Devoe, with the two “yelling back and forth at each other,” according to the police report.

Devoe’s pal, Brian Daigle, saw the woman reach to the left side of her waistband and told his friend, “C’mon forget it, it’s just a girl.”

The men left but noticed Pau- lino still following them, so they got out of their car.

Paulino drove by, slowed down and then shot Devoe in the chest, cops said.

“I’ve been hit,” Devoe said, before jumping back into the driver’s seat to chase Paulino. He then crashed into a vehicle barrier.

He was taken to Lowell General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Two hours after the incident, Paulino posted an ominous message on Facebook: “Tried to warn Em tried to tell Em told Em stop that you my son don’t make me spank you.”

Paulino was charged with murder for the “random encounter in traffic” and “possible road rage” incident, said Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan. She was held without bail. Devoe’s dad in court referenced the recent mass shooting in Parkland, Fla.

“I got a call my son’s been murdered,” he said. “I would recommend that this president make it his No. 1 priority to protect the people of this country. Let’s get this stopped. It’s going to get worse.”

In 2015, Devoe shared an image of himself in a hospital gown and wrote that he’d gotten stabbed. Two months later he posted an image of two fists and the words “fair ones.”

“To all you pussy that can’t fight without a weapon, man up old school,” he’d written.

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 ??  ?? RUN-IN: Graciela Paulino (above) posted on Facebook an apparent taunt against Mark Devoe (left), whom she is accused of killing.
RUN-IN: Graciela Paulino (above) posted on Facebook an apparent taunt against Mark Devoe (left), whom she is accused of killing.

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