He was nursing an injury — and a grudge.
In the weeks before he
in her Westchester County mansion, the day laborer
had been turned down for an injury compensation claim, The Post has learned.
Suspect Esdras Marroquin Gomez, 32, had filed a claim with the state seeking cash for a leg injury suffered while working for victim Lois Colley, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
He apparently limped away without any cash — and within days allegedly bludgeoned Colley, 83, to death with a wine bottle and a small fire extinguisher in the mud room of the Windswept Farm estate in North Salem.
Gomez was immediately suspected in the 2015 murder. But he had fled back to his native Guatemala and was only apprehended this week.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday.
Colley’s husband, Eugene, made his fortune by acquiring more than 100 McDonald franchises.
