Bodega clerk Jose Alba leaves NYC 'afraid for his lifetime,' mulls move back again to Dominican Republic: report

New York Metropolis bodega clerk Jose Alba has reportedly remaining the Big Apple and is mulling a a lot more everlasting move back again to his indigenous Dominican Republic soon after murder fees towards him were eventually dropped. 

Alba, 61, no for a longer period will work at the Blue Moon ease shop in Manhattan, the place he was attacked powering the counter on July 1 by 35-yr-aged Austin Simon. 

Surveillance video demonstrates Simon threatened Alba, arrived powering the counter and shoved him into a wall just before Alba reached for a knife and fatally stabbed the 6-foot tall male. Regardless of boasting self-defense, Alba was charged with murder.  

Simon’s girlfriend seemingly grew enraged with Alba for taking again items out of her daughter’s hand that they could not spend for using her electronic welfare card. Simon came back again into the retail outlet wanting to fight Alba, but Alba tried using to stay clear of even more confrontation ahead of he was attacked, in accordance to court docket documents. 

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A however from surveillance movie included in court docket files showed Jose Alba tried using to stay away from a confrontation.  (NYC prison court )

The girlfriend, who has not been charged, also reportedly stabbed Alba in an arm during the incident. 

"He does not get the job done right here any more. He’s finding completely ready to transfer out of the region," the manager of the shop just lately told the New York Post. "He does not occur [to the store anymore], but we go visit him at household from time to time."

Francisco Marte, the head of a bodega affiliation aiding Alba, explained to the Write-up that Alba is nonetheless processing the assault and its aftermath. He was jailed at the infamous Rikers Island for about a week prior to prosecutors reduce a offer decreasing his $250,000 bail amid widespread outcry from New York City’s Dominican community. 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s workplace later on backtracked and dropped the murder cost in opposition to Alba on July 19, expressing in a memo that prosecutors "can't establish outside of a acceptable doubt that the defendant was not justified in his use of deadly bodily force."

Customers of the Dominican Republic local community, bodega homeowners and distinct associations are pictured on the methods of City Corridor throughout press meeting asking Manhattan D. A. Alvin Bragg to drop charges in opposition to bodega employee Jose Alba. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Everyday News by way of Getty Photos)

Between several other supporters, New York Town Mayor Eric Adams and previous NYPD Commissioner Invoice Bratton experienced publicly decried the originally charging selection, declaring Alba acted in self-defense to thwart what appeared to be possibly an endeavor on his personal everyday living or a robbery in progress. 

Marte said that Alba is now paying out time in upstate New York in advance of heading to the Dominican Republic. 

"He is getting a hiatus right now," Marte reported. "He went upstate to get away from everything."

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"He is not going again to function at the bodega. He is having a split battling with his trauma, and he stated he is scared for his everyday living," Marte additional. "He is attempting to get back again to normal, but he mentioned it’s extremely tough when you have flashbacks of what occurred. We are having him specialist support, and then [Alba and his family] make your mind up irrespective of whether he goes again to the DR for great or just spends some time there."