Colleagues mourn new Harlem supermarket worker beaten to death sweeping sidewalk by homeless man with wooden plank

A new employee sweeping the sidewalk outside a Harlem supermarket was beaten to death with a wooden plank by a homeless man, cops and distraught colleagues said Tuesday. Bernardo Gonzalez Perez, 63, was excited he had just cashed his paycheck when he clashed with a homeless man around noon June 7 outside Food Universe on W. 138th St. near Broadway, police said. He’d only been working the new job for a couple of weeks. As their quarrel escalated, Carlos Ramirez, 48, picked up a “large plank of wood” and hit Gonzalez Perez “in the head several times” with it, leaving the older man with a massive...