The grieving family of a 64-year-old Manhattan supermarket worker who died after a scuffle with a would-be beer thief had warned him not to be a hero — but he didn’t heed their advice.

Leobardo Hernandez’s kin repeatedly told the doting dad of four to let security handle shoplifters at Morton Williams at Columbus Circle, but the hard-working immigrant had a knack for helping others and wasn’t one to look the other way, his kin told The Post. 4

“We told him plenty of times,” his son, Henry Hernandez, 31, said Tuesday. “When we used to sit in the car, going someplace he’d start telling us stories like, ‘Look, this happened, that happened.’ We used to look at him like, ‘Dad, you are not the security. Leave that to the store. And if they want to rob the store, that’s not your store. L

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