A suspected drug dealer died Friday after being shot four times in an early morning fight on a Bronx street, police said.

Delquan Alston, 21, who took two bullets to the head and another two to the torso, was found lying in a pool of blood on E. 156th St. outside the Andrew Jackson Houses at 4 a.m., police said.

Alston was taken to Lincoln Hospital but died within minutes.

No witnesses have come forward to help detectives investigating the murder, police said.

Alston, who lived nearby on Jerome Ave., had an extensive criminal record, including convictions for drug possession, trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to records.

Investigators are exploring whether Alston was killed in a dispute over drug turf, police said.

Anyone with information about the killing is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

A computer science student was just protecting himself from a group of menacing thugs when he fatally stabbed a Yonkers man during a row at a Times Square bar, a Manhattan grand jury decided Friday.

Atdhe Gashi was cleared in the death of Elliott Paulino, 25, during a violent dustup at the Playwright Tavern on W. 49th St. last Saturday.

“You go from the worst to the best-case scenario,” said a sobbing Gashi, 22, after he was set free. “It’s hard.”

Gashi, who had been held at Rikers since he turned himself in Sunday, was facing 25 years to life in prison.

“I’m happier than the day he as born,” Gashi’s dad, Meti, gushed as he hugged his son outside the courthouse.

Defense lawyer Robert Brown said the brawl began when one thug, who may have been a member of a gang known as the Stillwell Boys, punched Gashi without provocation at a private birthday party in the bar. Bouncers then tossed Gashi and the group outside.

As Gashi, also of Yonkers, waited for his girlfriend, the belligerent band encountered him again and the harassment turned violent, Brown said.

“He gets cold-cocked again,” the lawyer said. Then, Paulino was “on top of my client, striking him” as others also struck at him. “It’s Times Square, every inch of it is on video,” Brown said of proof in the case.

Gashi pulled a Leatherman knife he uses at his Wall Street job to open packages and stabbed Paulino, Brown said.

“It’s a freakish thing to kill someone with such a small knife. He had no intention of killing,” the lawyer said. “He’s a computer geek. He’s never been in trouble before.”

Paulino’s family could not be reached for comment.

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A parking space really can be worth trying to kill for.

Cops are searching for a hulking man who stabbed a Brooklyn driver for not giving him room to park this week, cops said.

Vladimir Reyfman, 48, was sitting in his pickup truck last Sunday when the suspect stepped out of his sedan and asked Reyfman – who was parked on the corner of Brighton 11th St. and Brighton Beach Ave. in Brighton Beach – to pull up so he could parallel park his car, sources said.

Reyfman refused, saying he didn’t want to move closer to a truck that was loading in front of him, the sources said.

The suspect – described as 40 years old, about 5-feet-11 and around 250 pounds – calmly walked away and went into a nearby bodega, cops said.

But the bulky ruffian suddenly stormed out of the store, pulled a blade from his car and jabbed Reyfman twice in the chest before speeding away, sources said.

The wounded driver was transported to Lutheran Hospital, and survived the vicious attack.

“If he was any thinner, the punctures would have killed him,” a source said. “There was a lot of blood in the car.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).