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A man hacked to death by a machete-wielding Grindr date was a loyal, trusting friend — and excited about meeting his new love interest, devastated loved ones said Monday.

It took three weeks for authorities to determine it was Carlos “Carlitos” Algenis Jimenez, 26, who was killed in a Bronx apartment last month after hooking up with a man he met on the popular dating app. Sources said the victim and the suspect, Juan Alonso, 50, got into a fight about what kind of sex to have.

“The more days passed I was getting ready for the heartbreaking news because he had been gone for over 20 days so I knew something was wrong,” said longtime friend Roqueline Rodriguez, 27.

“We are all devastated. I was one of his best friends since high school."

Alonso’s 61-year-old roommate, who had been away for several days, walked in on the carnage about 7 p.m. Sept. 27, finding Alonso, machete in hand, standing over the dead victim in their E. 206th Street apartment in Norwood, sources said.

The crazed suspect was wearing a dress, bra, panties and fingernail polish, police sources said. The roommate backed out of the apartment and called 911.

Jimenez’s friends and family had been agonizing in the days since he left his Jersey City home to meet Alonso. Until they learned the gruesome details of his death last week, Jimenez was listed as a missing person whose whereabouts were a frustrating mystery.

Friends said Jimenez had been excited about his meeting in the Bronx.

“I used to warn him about how trusting he was,” Rodriguez said. “He was such a sweet kid. He would never hurt a fly, but he was very naïve. He was so innocent and he just trusted everyone and was so open with anyone and everyone.”

Jimenez lived with his father in Jersey City. An upstairs neighbor and close friend, Viviana Arroyo, 44, said he was very trusting.

“I just know he was happy he was going to meet someone.”

Arroyo said Jimenez was originally supposed to meet his new love interest in Jersey City — but somehow the plan changed.

“He never thought ill of anyone or thought anyone had a bad bone in their body,” Arroyo said. “And someone took advantage of this.”

His father, Carlos Vidal Jimenez, said he came home from a long days work at a gas station the night Jimenez met Alonso, and noticed his son wasn’t home.

Vidal didn’t know much about his son’s personal life.

“When I came home from work, I thought, ‘Oh maybe he’s at [the neighbor’s] or upstairs sleeping,’” Vidal said.

But Vidal could not get a hold of Jimenez the next day, nor could Jimenez’s friends. His phone had been disconnected Sept. 27 — the same day he was killed — because he could not pay the monthly bill, friends and family members told The News Monday night.

Family friend Martha Agurto, 50, said she was the last person to see Jimenez before he disappeared.

“I was like his aunt,” she said. “I made an altar for him,” she added, referring to a memorial for Jimenez outside her home.

“I was like a second mother and the last person to see him before he disappeared. I am with his father right now at the funeral home but his friends have been coming by my building to the altar to pay their respects.”

Rodriguez launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for her friend’s funeral expenses. She said the family wanted to ship his body back to the Dominican Republic, where his mother still lives, and have him buried there.

Before his grisly death, Jimenez did manage to share a goodbye of sorts.

“He even sent a message to his mom and dad,” Rodriguez said. “It was voice recordings on WhatsApp like towards the end of September – I think the day he was killed — saying to his family that he loved them and wanted to be a better son.”

“It’s so sad that this happened,” Rodriguez added. “But at least he sent voice messages the day he died and it makes me think that maybe Carlos knew he was in danger. Because he died after sending these voice messages, and it was the last thing his father and mother ever heard from him.”

His father recounted that last message, sent to his mom around 1 p.m. Sept. 27.

“He is talking to his mom [in Spanish], saying he was thanking everybody for being there for him, for being by his side,” Vidal said. “It sounded like a goodbye.”

Jimenez’ mother lives in the Dominican Republic, and friends are raising money on GoFundMe to bury him there.

Authorities said the victim was found lying face down with multiple slash and stab wounds to his head and back.

After his roommate called 911, Alonso was arrested at the scene for murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held without bail and is due back in Bronx Criminal Court Oct. 30.

The suspect’s roommate told police he was placed in the apartment by a real estate agency and didn’t know the suspect well, despite their shared living quarters.

“Carlitos was defenseless,” his grieving father said. “I want to see my son get justice.”

Vidal said he’s bracing for his son’s open-casket wake Friday.

“I’m going to have to look at him,” he said. “I feel like am going to go crazy.”

Jimenez was born in the U.S., but moved to the Dominican Republic with his mother when he was young. His dad returned him to the U.S. at age 8.

Vidal said he’s going to return to the Dominican Republic with his son’s body, to bury him in a cemetery near Santo Domingo, “under a tree.” And he plans to return there permanently by year’s end, to live with family — but wants to make all of Alonso’s court dates.

“I am going to make sure I come back here for that," he said.

“I have a lot of emotions. There’s a hole in my heart, he added. "We lived together over 17 years. It was the two of us.... I can’t believe he’s gone.”