A hardworking autistic Bronx man who avoided the subway after a beatdown left him in fear of the city’s transit system was shot to death when he was mugged on his long walk home from his late-night shift at an Amazon warehouse, his heartbroken family says.

Ronell Marte, 26, was nearly done with his 50-minute walk home from his night shift when he cut through Starlight Park to save a little time — only to be confronted by two muggers in the predawn hours of Sept. 4.

“He took a shortcut through the park and, heartbreakingly, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time , and only five minutes away from home,” his sister Nelroby Marte wrote in a GoFundMe that raised more than $1,000 for his funeral services.

“Ronell had been jumped on the train before from an attempted robbery, so walki

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