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A deranged man was charged yesterday with stabbing an Upper West Side shelter manager to death, cops said.

Bernardo Paulino, 34, allegedly slashed John Baisley, 56, about 12:30 p.m. Friday at the Camden Residence Hotel on 95th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, authorities said.

Baisley, the front-desk manager of the facility that provides emergency housing to people living with HIV, tried to evict Paulino for destroying property, police sources said. But the man became enraged and chased him with a hammer, sources added.

Paulino then allegedly got a kitchen knife and began stabbing him, cops said. He was taken into police custody at the scene.

Resident John Flemings, 71, said Paulino had been kicked out in the past for psychotic behavior but that Baisley had helped him come back to the shelter.

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