Bloody roommate eyed in Kips Bay throat slit

A HOMELESS MAN with blood on his hands just might be a killer.

Cops are looking for a vicious assailant who left a 55-year-old man dead with his throat slit in a Kips Bay shelter, sources said.

A security guard found the victim, Marcus Guerreiro, in his blood-soaked bed on the third floor of the Bellevue Men’s Shelter on E. 30th St. near First Ave. about 8:20 a.m. Friday, sources said.

Guerreiro had a thin wire wrapped around his neck and a deep gash to his throat, cops said.

Another resident of the shelter was seen in a hallway bathroom washing blood off his hands at around the time of the murder, sources said. Bloody sheets and clothes were also found in a bathroom garbage can.

“There was blood everywhere ... all over the bed,” said one 37-yearold shelter resident who declined to give his name. “It was a mess.”

At least two guards were on the shelter’s third floor all night, according to the Department of Homeless Services. A supervisor wouldn’t comment on what the guards heard or saw, citing the ongoing investigation.

Sources said cops were also questioning Guerreiro’s roommate who returned to the shelter after cops arrived and appeared not to know what had happened.

“He walked up to the crime scene and asked, ‘What’s going on?’” one source said.

The Brazilian-born victim, who sold loose cigarettes to get by, was known to have cash on him and had been staying at the shelter since May 28, sources said.

“We are speaking to all roommates and all individuals that were on that floor,” said Chief of Manhattan Detectives William Aubry.

Sources said the victim previously told a security guard that two men came into his room on March 26 and one held him down with a pillow over his face, trying to suffocate him, while another man robbed him of about $200.

The Friday attack follows a series of violence at shelters, including a Jan. 27 near decapitation of 62-year-old Deven Black, a former city teacher in East Harlem.

On Feb. 10, Rebecca Cutler, 26, and her daughters Maliyah Sykes, 5 months, and Ziana Cutler, 19 months, were stabbed to death in a Staten Island hotel being used as a shelter.

Mayor de Blasio announced plans in March to have the NYPD train the city’s 600 shelter security staffers, but the training has not begun, officials said.