Arrest in slay over cigarette

One of the four men responsible for beating and fatally shooting a Bronx man over a flicked cigarette has been arrested, police said Saturday.

Joes Aviles, 29, was grabbed earlier this week by members of the NYPD’s Violent Felony Squad in Illinois for his role in the death of Curtis Holley (inset).

Holley, 36, wa s walking with his wife near E. 165th St. and Prospect Ave. in Foxhurst on Aug. 8 when he pitched a cigarette butt in the suspects’ direction. Holley’s wife, Cindy Inez BurgosHolley, said her husband apologized for flicking the cigarette, but they were enraged.

“He said ‘Pardon,’ and he turned around,” Burgos-Holley told the Daily News at the time. But the suspects began cursing and screaming at her husband, and then stalking the couple as they walked away, she said.

“He thought they were following us too far and so he turned around and said, ‘Yo, I said pardon myself,’ ” she recalled.

One of the men punched Holley before the fatal bullet was fired. Holley ran into the street as Burgos-Holley ran after the fleeing assailants.

Medics rushed Holley to Lincoln Hospital, where he died a few hours later.

“Oh my God, over a cigarette? You took somebody’s father, husband, brother for that?” Burgos-Holley said at the time. “They destroyed my whole life in one second.”

Cops on Friday brought Aviles back to New York, where he was charged with murder.

His arraignment was pending Saturday. His three accomplices were still being sought.