Fired NYC IHOP employee stabs ex-coworker to death in restaurant’s bathroom: sources

A fired IHOP worker was arrested in the stabbing murder of his ex-colleague in a barbaric clash in the Brooklyn eatery’s restroom, cops and sources said Monday.

Wilber Salazar Rios, 44, was arrested Sunday and charged with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the late Friday slaying of Hector Reinoso Perez at East New York IHOP on Flatlands Avenue near Louisiana Avenue, police said.

Salazar Rios, of Hempstead, Nassau County, was chatting with the victim, as well as his former manager inside the eatery before things turned violent, law enforcement sources said.

All three dispersed and Reinoso Perez went back to cleaning the bathroom – where Salazar Rios confronted him once again, according to the sources.

The two men argued before the sacked employee stabbed his former co-worker in the stomach with a knife, the sources said.

Reinoso-Perez – who lived about a half-mile from the restaurant where he worked – was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead, cops said.

Another worker, 41, who tried to step in during the deadly clash and take the knife away ended up with cuts on his hands, according to cops and prosecutors. He was not hospitalized.

Salazar Rios told cops after he his arrest that the murder victim had pushed him when he went into the bathroom, the sources said.

He also claimed he had no idea where the knife came from, according to the sources.

Salazar Rios was ordered held without bail during his Monday afternoon arraignment.