Workers on the Hamilton Heights Blue Moon Comfort retailer say they fear for Jose Alba's security within the neighborhood.
Alec Tabak
The Manhattan bodega employee dealing with homicide costs for preventing off an attacker can’t come again to work whereas he’s out on bail as a result of his co-workers worry he’s in peril of retaliation from his assailant’s buddies, they informed The Publish Friday.
“We’re not letting him come again,” a employee on the Hamilton Heights Blue Moon handy retailer, who solely recognized himself as Wilson, stated of Jose Alba, 61.
“[His alleged victim’s] pals, household, figuring out that the person who killed their son, brother, pal, no matter, obtained out of jail and is working right here? That’s a loss of life sentence. They know the place the situation is.”
The shop’s proprietor, Osamah Aldhabyani, informed The Publish Alba isn’t being paid whereas he’s out of labor after he helped foot the price of his bail.
Aldhabyani, 35, stated Alba “doesn’t wish to take a danger” and return to the shop instantly. However when Alba’s able to return to work, the proprietor stated he could switch him to a different retailer.
“I inform him ‘you saved your life, keep in your house. I obtained three shops. I’m searching for you in one other retailer. Don’t fear a few job,'” recalled Aldhabyani, who owns two different shops within the Bronx.
Late Thursday, Alba was sprung from Rikers Island after prosecutors agreed to decrease his $250,000 bond following a wave of public outcry over the costs and the extent of bail set within the case.
He’s dealing with second-degree homicide costs for stabbing Austin Simon, 35, 5 instances final Friday after the profession legal got here behind the counter and attacked him following an argument between his girlfriend and Alba.
Alba and his family members insist his actions had been in self-defense and his coworkers are involved extra violence is to return.
“Why is [Alba] getting charged? He was working. Now that makes staff much more scared. This might occur to me. We out right here working. We really feel scared. We now have to guard ourselves,” stated Wilson.
“On this neighborhood, you don’t know who has a gun. If there's a battle over there within the nook, it finally ends up right here within the retailer. We're uninterested in that. We're right here to make cash and serve the group.”
Because the incident, one employee stated he’s coming in on his time off to assist preserve his coworkers secure and others are doing the identical factor.
“He wasn’t searching for bother, he was working. What's he speculated to do? That man may have performed something… [Alba] is an outdated man. It’s not honest,” Wilson railed.
“How the hell he get charged when she began every thing? She was arguing with Jose, she ran out and obtained her man.”
Following the preliminary incident, police stated Simon’s girlfriend obtained into an argument with Alba after she was unable to pay for a bag of chips and requested him to open a tab for her on the retailer.
When Alba declined, she complained to Simon, who got here again and attacked the employee.
“They need to think about self protection,” one other employee, who solely recognized himself as Escoo, stated of prosecutors.
“We're risking our lives serving the group.”
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