A 40-year-old panhandler was shot dead inside a Midtown 7-Eleven after he held the door open for the gunman and asked him for money Thursday morning, cops and sources said.
The victim was blasted in the neck around 10:30 a.m. inside the convenience store on Eighth Avenue near West 39th Street, cops said.
He was pronounced dead minutes later by EMS workers at the scene.
Before the shooting, the victim had been holding the door open for customers in hopes of getting money, the sources said…