A father of six was fatally gunned down in front of his brother outside a Washington Heights paella joint yesterday — for supposedly looking at a thug the wrong way, authorities said.
“I knew they were trouble,” said Andrew Alvarado, 31, the brother of Humberto Alvarado, 39, who was shot in the chest by one of three punks.
Andrew said the bloodshed unfolded after he and his brother went out for a drink with other family members to El Rey De La Paella Restaurant on West 181st Street.
He said that just before 2:30 a.m., three men approached his brother, with one asking why he was looking at them.
Humberto denied staring at the guy, Andrew said, but the man punched him and ran out. As Humberto ran after him, one of his attacker’s cohorts shot him.
Cops did not know the killer’s motive, but the victim’s relatives believe the men may have come into the restaurant to hassle a woman who worked there.
They said Humberto didn’t know her.
The woman quit her job after the shooting, said the bar owner’s brother.
Humberto’s wife, Carmen Maria Alvarado, was inconsolable.
“I lost my love! I lost Humberto! Oh, my God!” she sobbed in the family’s apartment.
Andrew called his brother “a model to his children, a very responsible brother, cousin and friend.
“He had no enemies.”
Additional reporting by Jessica Simeone and Rebecca Harshbarger