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Brooklyn porn store clerk beaten to death

Police outside the smashed-up sex shop where a clerk was beaten to death. in an apparent robbery.

Police outside the smashed-up sex shop where a clerk was beaten to death. in an apparent robbery. (Theodore Parisienne)

Police released photos of a suspect in the brutal beating and death of a Sunset Park porn shop clerk.

Nimala Randunu, 54, a Sri Lanka native, who worked in the store six nights a week, had unlocked the door to Video Xcitement at 746 3rd Ave. and let the killer inside, cops said.

Cameras caught the man police believe is responsible for the horrific death putting something in a black plastic bag.

A 61-year-old customer watching a movie in a private booth called 911 after hearing a struggle, sources said. Cops said they think the motive was robbery.

The suspect is stands about 5-feet-nine-inches tall and weighs around 180 pounds. He has a slight moustache and beard and wore a black baseball cap an “A,” a black bubble vest, a striped shirt, blue jeans and black boots.

Conflicting reports of the grisly murder emerged Saturday morning, with police saying Randunu was beaten to death and a friend saying the police told him the clerk was shot six or seven times. The medical examiner has not released a cause of death.

Police said the suspect left the store with a black plastic bag stuffed with an unidentified object and no shots were fired.

“It’s very sad,” said Vertino Rodriguez, 44, who works in a liquor store across the street. “He’s a good guy. He came from Sri Lanka to make a living. He worked five or six nights a week here.”

mgartland@nypost.com