NYC Dad Shot Dead, Girlfriend Beaten After Confronting Stranger in Driveway

A  Bronx father of four was gunned down outside his home early Sunday in a deadly dispute over a parking spot—with his girlfriend also “badly beaten” in the melee, police and relatives said.

Trevor Hughes, 49, was shot shortly before 2 a.m. after getting into a heated exchange with 46-year-old ex-con Lavar Davis, whose car was allegedly blocking a driveway where the hard-working dad paid to park next to his Fowler Avenue home.

“It was all over a parking space,” Hughes’ brother told The Post Monday. “He took all the steps that you’re supposed to take when you want a car removed from blocking your driveway.  A patrol car came, and all they had to do was ticket the vehicle.

“Ticket the vehicle, get it towed, and that’s it. All he wanted to do was get inside so he could get four hours of sleep. Then he had to be up again to DJ for a brunch.”

Prosecutors said Monday that Davis fled the crime scene but cops caught up with him at his girlfriend’s apartment.

“When police officers went to find the defendant there, he barricaded himself in the apartment and refused to come out voluntarily, requiring the police to send in the Emergency Services Unit to get him out,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Rozenblum said at Davis’ arraignment.

Davis already has one murder rap under his belt, serving more than 24 years in state prison on a Schenectady conviction before he was released from the Attica Correctional Facility in 2019.

“He was also separately sentenced to an assault in the first degree and received a concurrent sentence of between 10 to 20 years, also out of Schenectady County,” Rozenblum said.

The career criminal is on lifetime parole, the prosecutor added.

Judge Harold Bahr ordered that Davis be held without bail.

Hughes, who was also a grandfather, worked as a DJ and a locksmith, and helped out neighbors as a local handyman, his brother and neighbors said.

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They said he came home from a gig only to find a car parked in the spot that he paid a neighbor to use — assuming it belonged to a patron from the troublesome Absolutto nightclub around the corner.

“No Parking” signs were even affixed to the gates of the driveway.

Hughes’ brother, who asked not to be named, said the victim went to the club and reported the errant vehicle, then waited with his girlfriend.

When the owner returned to the car, they got into a heated exchange — before things turned deadly, said neighbor Rose Marie, whose surveillance camera captured some of the confrontation.

“The guy goes, ‘What’s going on? You wanna get it out? I get [the gun] out for you,’ and then, boom, boom, boom,” she said.

“Right in front of his own house, over a parking spot. And the cops came with an ambulance because they beat up the girlfriend. They beat the hell out of her.”

Hughes was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital.

Davis was arrested Sunday evening and charged with second-degree murder, cops said. His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending early Monday afternoon.

According to his brother, Hughes was beloved by his neighbors and “never said no to the community.”

“He helped anyone in the area that needed his help,” he said. “He was always with a smile. His thing was always respecting the community.”

The mourning sibling said he’s devastated.

“I’m empty,” he shared. “My life is empty. My home is empty. What do I do now?”

Hughes moved to the Bronx at 18, his brother said, and had a family trip planned for November to his native Tortola in the Carribean to celebrate his 50th birthday — with those plans now gone.

“You know what’s happening here with New York City, that working-class people are being murdered by criminals and it’s not fair for the people that work, he said. “You know, I hope that Trump can look at what’s happening in New York City and bring the death penalty here.

“This is a working-class community here,” he added. “Everybody here works, and this club here around the corner has been a continuous problem. People here have been continuously reporting complaints.

“The thing is it’s not just this alone. It’s everywhere. It’s happening everywhere where you start reporting all these senseless murders of innocent people, kids, innocent kids getting killed.”

Meanwhile, Davis is due back in court on Friday.

His lawyer, Kenneth Kaufman, asked that he receive medical attention and held off on requesting bail on Monday.

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