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Man gunned down during fight in B’klyn apartment

A man was gunned down inside a Brooklyn apartment building on a tree-lined block this morning, police said.

Farrell Nestor, 28, was shot several times during a fight about 11:15 a.m. on the sixth-floor of the Flatbush building on East 23rd Street near the Flatbush Church of the Redeemer, authorities said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. It was not immediately clear what sparked the clash, cops said.

His sister Murielle Pierce came to the building, and fell to her knees sobbing.

“My brother is a sweetheart, and he’s lovable,” said Pierce. “He’s a nice person. He’s very kind.”

She said that he had made some mistakes in the past and had recently returned home from prison, but was trying to find a job and start a family.

“When he was young, he did dumb stuff, and went to jail,” Pierce said. “He was looking for jobs, he was trying to better himself.”

Records show Nestor served three years in state prison on a robbery and weapons possession conviction, and had been released in October.

“My brother is my world,” Pierce added. “My mother only has two kids—it’s me and my brother. My brother is my heart, my flower, my garden. Everything.”

Pierce’s daughter added that Nestor did not live in the building, and they did not know why he was there.

Nearby resident Anthony Gilles, 33, said he was shocked when he heard two shots fired in the middle-class neighborhood.

“This is a quiet block. There’s never crime or anything going on around here,” said Giles. “I come outside, and I see on the corner there’s a bunch of police—and I see that our security is at stake.”

Police sources said two men fled from the crime scene down a fire escape, and were taken into custody on the rooftop a building on East 22nd Street near Newkirk Avenue.

No one has been charged yet in the slaying.