The Post brings us this report on what has to be a candidate for the most senseless act of violence in the area so far this year — a taxi driver who killed a D.C. man over a broom.

The incident occurred in Prince George’s County yesterday around 5:30 p.m. According to police Norman Francis Wood III, 40, was mowing a lawn in the 4700 block of Leroy Gorham Drive in Capitol Heights when the cabbie, 55-year-old Michael Ricardo Cruz, stopped to pick up said broom which was lying near some trash. The men apparently got into a scuffle over the object, when police allege that Cruz pulled out a handgun and shot Wood.

Cruz has been charged with first-degree murder.