Issues are so unhealthy in New York that the bodega employee wrongfully charged with homicide in a self-defense case is taking off to the Dominican Republic.
Final month Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg charged 51-year-old Jose Alba with homicide when he clearly acted in self protection.
Jose Alba was thrown into Rikers Island jail after he stabbed his attacker a number of instances in self-defense.
Jennifer Sigall, the Assistant DA below Alvin Bragg stated the prosecutor’s workplace might “not show past an inexpensive doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of lethal bodily pressure.”
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The homicide cost was finally dropped and now Alba is taking off to the Dominican Republic for refuge.
The New York Put up reported:
The bodega clerk who was infamously charged with homicide for fatally stabbing an assailant has had it with the crime-ridden Huge Apple and is returning to the Dominican Republic, friends instructed The Put up on Friday.
“He doesn’t work right here anymore. He’s on the brink of transfer overseas,” the supervisor of the Blue Moon comfort retailer, the place the grisly Manhattan stabbing occurred July 1, stated of Jose Alba, 61.
The shop supervisor, who declined to determine himself, stated Alba is headed to Santiago, a metropolis within the Dominican Republic the place the previous employee is initially from.
“He doesn’t come [to the store anymore], however we go go to him at residence occasionally,” the supervisor stated.
Alba remains to be making an attempt to course of what occurred to him, together with being charged with homicide within the self-defense slaying after which lastly having the rap dropped amid widespread outcry, stated Francisco Marte, the top of a bodega affiliation that has been serving to the employee.
“He takes a hiatus proper now,” Marte stated. “He went upstate to get away from the whole lot” earlier than he heads to the DR.
Right here’s the backstory:
Alba fatally stabbed Austin Simon, 35, a profession prison who violently attacked him behind the counter a pair weeks in the past.
In accordance with experiences, Austin Simon’s girlfriend bought into an argument with Alba after her EBT card was declined when she tried to buy a bag of chips.
The disgruntled lady then left the bodega, ran residence and returned together with her boyfriend – and that’s when the confrontation escalated.
In accordance with Alba’s protection lawyer, the 32-year-old lady took a knife out of her purse and stabbed the bodega employee within the shoulder, the New York Put up reported.
She just isn’t going through prices for stabbing Jose Alba – However Jose Alba was charged with second-degree homicide for fatally stabbing Austin Simon – AFTER the assailants stabbed him and violently attacked him.
WATCH:
61-year-old bodega employee Jose Alba was attacked by an enraged profession prison, Austin Simon, who went behind the counter and choked him over a bag of chips. Alba defended himself, and Simon died. DA Alvin Bragg has charged him with homicide. pic.twitter.com/FIfL1O1q7X
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