Posted on 08/07/2022 7:25:42 AM PDT by DoodleBob
The bodega clerk who was infamously charged with murder for fatally stabbing an assailant has had it with the crime-ridden Big Apple and is returning to the Dominican Republic, pals told The Post on Friday.
“He doesn’t work here anymore. He’s getting ready to move out of the country,” the manager of the Blue Moon convenience store, where the grisly Manhattan stabbing happened July 1, said of Jose Alba, 61.
The store manager, who declined to identify himself, said Alba is headed to Santiago, a city in the Dominican Republic where the former worker is originally from.
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Alba is still trying to process what happened to him, including being charged with murder in the self-defense slaying and then finally having the rap dropped amid widespread outcry, said Francisco Marte, the head of a bodega association that has been helping the worker.
“He is taking a hiatus right now,” Marte said. “He went upstate to get away from everything” before he heads to the DR.
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On July 1, Alba was working behind the counter at the Hamilton Heights bodega when he got into an argument with a woman after she couldn’t pay for a bag of chips.
The woman then sent for her boyfriend, Austin Simon, 35, who came behind the counter and attacked Alba, leading the worker to grab a knife and stab the man to death.
Alba called police, and when they arrived, they arrested him on second-degree murder charges...On July 19, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg finally agreed to drop the charges against Alba, conceding there wasn’t enough evidence to prove the worker “was not justified in his use of deadly physical force,” his office wrote in a motion.
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It is safer and smells better.
Good move.
I cannot blame him.
Smart move.
Still, even while out on bail, Alba couldn’t return to work at the bodega because his managers were concerned his life was in danger and that Simon’s family could try to target him at the store, they said in July.
However his work ethic and self-defense skills might be better appreciated in some of the more civilized areas of our nation.
marked man if he stays...
There are still some good places to live in America, but NYC isn’t one of them. I would move to the Black Hole of Calcutta before I’d live in an American city.
Shouldn’t have said a word.
Just left.
Good for him.
Grisly Manhattan stabbing it heroic self-defense?
It depends on who one ax, one would suppose.
and the Chupacabra are on vacation
I can understand why he would want to decompress in the land from whence he came. Hopefully the rest of his life will be calm and uneventful.
He tasted the American Dream and found that the Communists poisoned the well.
I worked in NYC when the Rodney King riots were going on. Nothing happened in Manhattan. Indeed, when I watched the 11pm news on Channel 7, I saw a brief clip of Times Square with police standing by. Some miscreant started trying to bash the windows of a store, to get something going: nobody joined him, and a cop just took out the Bad Guy's legs with his billy club. That was totally appropriate and legit, and I never heard about the Bad Guy hiring Ron Kuby to defend him. It made me love NYC a little more than I did.
I was in NYC recently for a conference. It's still got the pizzaz, and even some of the nuttiness that makes parts of it very cool. But there is a palpable whiff of They Live that's crept in, that's off-putting.
It'd be cool if Alba stayed in the Finger Lakes region. But he'll be looking over his shoulders. What a shame.
If he changes his mind he’d be welcome in Florida...
They misspelled “ bogeda.”
Someone should have told Alba to turn out the lights when he leaves.
Almost too late, but better late than never.
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