MAN BEGS FOR HIS LIFE BEFORE BEING SHOT IN THE HEAD!

A Manhattan man with a long rap sheet pleaded for his life before being gunned down on a Harlem street early Saturday, police and witnesses said.

Walter Taylor, 35, a father of two young kids, was shot in the head on 129th St. and Lenox Ave. around 4:30 a.m., police said.

"He was killed a day before Father's Day," said sister Leah Gray, who said Taylor had a 5-year-old son and 4-year-old girl.

"He was never out late. He spent nights at home with the family."

Witnesses in Harlem heard an argument followed by at least five shots. One 911 caller told an operator she heard the victim beg for his life before the shots.

"Please don't kill me," the caller claimed to have heard him say.

Taylor had a lengthy criminal record with arrests for drug dealing and assault. Relatives said he recently returned to school to earn a college degree.

"He really worked hard at his education," said Gray, attending a vigil hours after the murder. "He was taking classes in science and math, and he wanted to find a job working with computers.

"We loved him very much, for the good and for the bad," she added.