Suspect targeted me: bro

The suspected Times Square gunman was aiming for his brother when he shot three innocent bystanders — and the sibling later dropped the dime on him, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday.

Farrakhan Muhammad (above), a 31-year-old CD peddler, was identified as the man police believe opened fire Saturday — after a bizarre chain of events led cops to his brother, sources said.

The suspected gunman was allegedly caught on surveillance video at the scene of Saturday’s bloodshed, which occurred just before 5 p.m. in Times Square, and the images were widely disseminated.

Two sergeants with the Manhattan South Detective Bureau were then working a fatal overnight stabbing at a West 31st Street single-room-occupancy hotel when they spotted a man who looked almost identical to the alleged shooter, according to law-enforcement sources.

Cops approached the man, telling him he looked just like the Times Square shooting suspect.

“I’m his brother,” replied the man, who was not involved in the stabbing but who said he lived at the SRO, according to sources.

The man then told officers that his brother had been aiming for him during the Times Square shooting, sources said.

“Textbook detective work,” a source told The Post.

Cops were looking for Muhammad as of Sunday evening.

“We have our heavy hunters looking for him,” a source said.

The suspect has been busted before, including last year for allegedly assaulting a passerby who tried to intervene when Muhammad was hassling a couple on the street, sources said.