NYC man beaten to death with baseball bat in dispute over rent — and now landlord is in custody: sources

A Bronx man was beaten to death with a baseball bat Saturday in an apparent dispute over unpaid back rent — and now his landlord is in custody, police and law enforcement sources told The Post.

The 30-year-old victim, Kristopher Samaroo, walked out of his small brick home on Throgs Neck Expressway to get his mail at around 6 p.m., according to cops and police sources.

That’s when his unidentified landlord confronted him about the missing rent.

The encounter turned violent — and the landlord and another man who came with him allegedly beat Samaroo outside his house, sources said.

He made it back inside after the savage assault, and his wife called 911.

Police found Samaroo with “trauma about the body,” an NYPD spokesperson said in an email.

Cops brought him to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi, police said, but he didn’t survive.

Police have arrested two men — including the landlord — but no charges had been filed by Sunday evening, sources said.