Slain dad was not targeted

A MAN fatally shot in Brooklyn while standing outside his home with his two sons was not the intended target, sources said.

David Dottin, 49, was shot above the right eye around 8:45 p.m. Sunday when a lunatic fired into a crowd on Herkimer Place near Nostrand Ave. Dottin’s sons, ages 11 and 17, and a friend standing near Dottin were not hit by the senseless gunfire in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

“Everybody scrambled to get behind a car,” the younger son Davion told the Daily News. “Then we just see my father, just right there. And he just dropped. And we started seeing blood from his head.”

Witnesses told cops the gunman, wearing a green camouflage sweatshirt, walked through a crowd on Herkimer and fired three shots at random into the crowd, sources said.

Davion started crying as he talked to a reporter and then took to his grandmother's lap for comfort.

“Don’t let me find him. Just do not let this family find him,” said Anna Dottin, 70, the victim’s mother. “Just turn himself into the police before someone in this family finds him.”

Added Laurel Dottin, 75, David’s aunt, “Let the police find him first. Because if we find him first, we’re all going to prison.”

Anna Dottin last saw her only son alive on Sunday.

“I'm not in a good place right now,” Anna said. “I don't know. This is surreal . . . I don’t even know what to say.”

Laurel Dottin remembered the school lunch aide as an easygoing man who doted on his kids and just wanted to be around to see them grow up.

Dottin (photo) was looking at floats being prepared for Monday’s New York Caribbean Carnival Parade when he was shot.

He was born in Barbados and loved sports, an interest he shared with his sons.

“This was a drive-by shooting,” Laurel said. “We don’t know who the person is. They were just talking about sports with the other boys, and this idiot comes by.”

Cops found three spent 9-mm shell casings at the scene, sources said.