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Frederick Bolden Jr.'s mother and grandmother are struggling to process his murder at the hands of a man who'd been dating the victim's sister.

Paulina Nrecaj's daughter said Sunday that the fact her mom was killed right outside the building where she and her siblings had been been raised added to their pain.

]]Cops said Galan Quiroz was beaten to death in a violent struggle in the basement of an apartment building on Fifth Ave. near 48th St. in Sunset Park around 5:25 a.m. on Aug. 31.

Aris Wimbush was shot and killed Aug. 24 when he stepped out of the family home to take out the garbage.

So far in 2022, some 130 fires have been sparked by lithium-ion batteries across the city, killing five people. At the same point in 2021, the batteries were blamed for 65 fires — 50% of this year’s total — and those blazes killed three.

David Lester’s troubled life ended in a gruesome death, crushed at the bottom of a trash compactor, his last words muted by desperate screams.