A Brooklyn bodega worker is speaking out about a fatal confrontation last week with a belligerent customer , saying that he and a fellow clerk were defending themselves when they delivered the blows that may have ended the man’s life.

Kelvin Melo, 48, told The News Thursday that 59-year-old Gerry Hill, stormed into the Royal Deli & Grill on Knickerbocker Ave. near Jefferson St. in Bushwick Monday looking for trouble.

“I thought it was going to be an ordinary day,“ Melo said. “The guy would come in looking for a fight and he would leave. I didn’t expect anybody to die.“

Melo said he had only been working at the deli a month when he found himself wresting on the floor with a troublemaking customer .

“I was making sandwiches, but I couldn’t hear the orders because he was screamin

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