A busted taillight led cops to a car they suspect was used by two gunmen who executed two pals near a Flatiron District nightclub, police sources said.
Cops pulled the driver over in Brooklyn about 1 a.m. Tuesday and held him on an outstanding warrant. Police haven't released his name.
The sources said he has been uncooperative but that he's a suspect in the Sunday murder of Terrance Serrano, 22, and Rashawn Washington, 26, who were killed as they sat in an SUV near Roam on E. 19th St.
No one has been charged in the 3:45 a.m. slaying.
Washington and Serrano, both from Coney Island, were likely killed in a beef over a woman - not because they were possible witnesses to a pair of murders, the sources said.
Police sources said Serrano had some kind of clash with his baby's mother last year. The woman felt disrespected and told her brother, who is a member of a street gang that hangs out on Mermaid Ave. The driver of the car pulled over yesterday runs with the same crew, the sources said.
Obsessed with payback, they tried to take Serrano out in July 2009. But a gunman's bullet missed Serrano and hit his brother, Micuan Serrano, 19, in the face, killing him. Serrano was quizzed about the murder, but refused to cooperate with police.
Someone at Roam early Sunday pointed out Washington and Serrano to a member of the Mermaid Ave. crew. Two gunmen were in a sedan waiting for the two men when they left. Once the pals climbed into the silver Mercury Mountaineer, the sedan rolled up. The shooters walked up to the SUV and shot the men in the head.
After the hit, investigators found members of the Mermaid Ave. crew Tweeting about the slayings.
"The toaster is hot," read one posting, which investigators say is street slang indicating the hit had been carried out.
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