The co-owner of the famed L&B Spumoni Gardens restaurant, which once nearly sparked a mob war over a pizza sauce recipe, was shot dead in the backyard of his Brooklyn home Thursday night, police sources said.

Louis Barbati, 61, was shot twice in the back, in the backyard of his home on 12th Ave. and 76th St. in Dyker Heights just after 7 p.m., police said. He died at the scene.

Police sources and say Barbati is an owner of the pizzeria.

Louis Barbati, the co-owner of Spumoni Gardens, was found shot dead at his home on Thursday.
Louis Barbati, the co-owner of Spumoni Gardens, was found shot dead at his home on Thursday. (NICHOLAS FEVELO FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Cops are searching for a white man in his 30s who wore a black hoodie and was seen fleeing the scene.

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A mob war nearly erupted over the “gravy” recipe at the pizzeria, but tempers cooled after a sitdown at a Panera Bread cafe, according to testimony in a 2012 extortion case.

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