Man beaten to death with wooden board during melee outside Queens gas station: ‘He was all I had,’ victim’s brother says

A 23-year-old father was beaten to death with a wooden board during a crazed clash with a group of men outside a Queens gas station early Sunday, police said.

“I’m hurting so bad,” said the victim’s brother Bryan Vasquez. “I feel so hurt. I lost my brother.”

Esvin Vasquez, 23, got into in a fight with a large group outside a BP gas station on Junction Blvd. near 44th Ave. in Corona around 2:05 a.m., cops said.

In video viewed by the Daily News, the men surrounded the victim, attacking him in the middle of the street as one held a board over his head to hit him.

The gas station is just around the corner from the Vasquez’s home, where he lived with his brother.

One of the men hit Vasquez in the head with the board. When police arrived, they found him on the ground with a severe head injury.

Medics took Vasquez to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died.

“Me and my family were upstairs in the apartment when a neighbor came knocking on our door and told us what was happening,” said Brian Vasquez, 32.

The Guatemala native moved to the city to provide for his wife and 1-year-old son.

“My brother was only here in New York for short while. He wanted to save enough money to build a house back in Guatemala for his son Sammy and his wife Sofia,” Bryan Vasquez said.

“When I spoke to his wife, she was in shock. She couldn’t even speak,” he added.

The brothers worked at a furniture store where they were both laborers.

“He was all I had,” Brian Vasquez said. “He didn’t have many friends and he was not violent or aggressive.”

Cops have made no arrests.

“I don’t know why or who would do this to him,” Brian Vasquez said. “He was very calm and didn’t want to hurt anyone. I don’t know why this happened.”