Gunned down in Times Sq.
Slain Yule reveler was father of 3
A father-of-three attending a Christmas party early Tuesday was shot dead by a fellow reveler in a jealous rage on the sidewalk outside a Times Square club,, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Perseus Salichs, 33, off the Upper West Side had stepped out of Tonic on Seventh Avenue between West 48th and 49th streets for a smoke and was talking to a woman at around 3:50 a.m. when the gunman confronted him, the sources said.
“What are you doing talking to my girl?” said the shooter, who had just stormed out of Tonic in a black skull cap and black jacket, according to sources.
An apologetic Salichs (inset) backed off, but the gunman pushed him and shot him once in the head before fleeing, the sources said.
“[It] happened very quickly,” a police source said.
Salichs later was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
The gunman, according to sources,, was captured on surveillance footage inside the nightspot talking to the same woman — but she told investigators she hardly knew him.
Santos Lopez, 61, whose 16th-floor apartment overlooks the crime scene, said the commotion woke him.
“The first thing I heard was a woman screaming, ‘Help me! Help me!’ And then I looked out the window and I saw a group of people fighting by the newspaper [stand],” said Lopez, who quickly called 911.
“But there was one guy that was fighting everybody,” he said.
Salichs, who was employed as a cook at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Harlem for two years, had attended the holiday party with a co-worker.
Devastated co-workers at the Frederick Douglass Boulevard eatery described Salichs as “the friendliest guy in the world.”
“He was an amazing person — he really worked hard to take care of his kids,” said one colleague, Adriana Kirkley, 26.
“He was the friendliest guy — just a loving person . . . Him just walking into a room made everyone happy.”
Salichs’ sister, Nairobi Urena, 30, said, “He was a loving and caring person. He didn’t deserve this.”
She called Salichs, who had three daughters ages 3 to 12, “a good father.”