MANCHESTER, Conn. — He begged for his life, but was shown no mercy.
An already-wounded man desperately pleaded with unhinged killer Omar Thornton to spare him, but was mercilessly shot in the head as a horrified pal looked on.
“[Thornton] walked up to him and the guy begged for his life,” the teary-eyed Teamster friend told The Post, recalling Edwin Kennison Jr.’s last moments.
“He shot him twice in the head. I was just a few feet away.”
The survivor said that when the crazed gunman came out with guns blazing, Kennison, a father of a 13-year-old girl, wasn’t able to get away because he had injured his knee.
“The guy had already shot him once because he couldn’t run away,” said the co-worker, who saved himself by ducking behind a column.
In a terrible twist, Kennison, 49, could have stayed home because of his bad knee but went to work anyway.
“If he’d never hurt his knee he would never be in that office in the first place,” Kennison’s friend, Sam Conover, told The Hartford Courant.
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