D-lister says pal a killer

A struggling actor who became a cooperator against a bicoastal cocaine ring he once worked for testified Tuesday that he thought his high-school pal was involved in the Midtown murder of a law student who moonlighted as a drug mule.

“When I heard Brandon [Woodard] was dead, I was immediately afraid because I knew [Lloyd] McKenzie had something to do with it,” Quran Pender told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court of the 2012 execution-style hit on Woodard.

The actor — a Cornell University graduate who appeared in the 2004 Queen Latifah film “The Cookout” — agreed to flip on McKenzie, 39, his high-school pal, in exchange for a five-year prison sentence, which he has already served.

Pender, 38, said Woodard, 31, was living a glamorous life, hanging out in the VIP sections of exclusive clubs, driving a brand new Range Rover and living in a luxury town house in tony Marina Del Rey, Calif.

“He mentioned he needed help selling cocaine, or white, as he referred to it,” said Pender, who introduced Woodard to McKenzie.

The three struck a deal. Woodard and his cohorts would ship the blow to various addresses in Queens. He would then fly to New York to collect his payment, and Pender would get a cut.

A few months later, Woodard was shot dead. He was on his way to collect $161,000 from McKenzie — and Pender had unknowingly arranged the fateful meeting via phone, he said.