Slay rap in shooting of ex’s beau

A SCORNED LOVER was indicted Tuesday in the killing of his former flame’s new boyfriend on a Brooklyn street.

“I had to do it. I had to do what’s right for my family,” Robert Flippen told detectives after he was busted in the May 6 shooting, according to newly released court documents.

Flippen, 48, was indicted in the second-degree murder of 39-yearold Laquan Surles at Third Ave. and State St.

Flippens’ attorney, Robert Reuland, entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf at the arraignment.

When Flippen was taken into custody hours after the shooting, he urged detectives to find the murder weapon before a “kid could find it,” the documents read.

Flippen dismantled the gun and tossed the pieces in various parts of Boerum Hill, according to court papers.

He gave detectives directions to the barrel and spring he threw in the middle of Smith St., and to where the bottom half of the pistol was buried three inches from a curb, the documents read.

As they passed the crime scene, Flippen allegedly looked at the sidewalk where Surles had fallen and coldly said, “There’s no candles, so the guy was not loved.”

If convicted of the top charge, Flippen faces 25 years to life in prison. He allegedly said he was willing to plead guilty to manslaughter because he “cannot spend the rest of (his) life in jail.”