NYC Bodega Clerk Who Was Charged with Murder for Stabbing an Assailant in Self-Defense, Tells His Harrowing Story

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ALBA: “I took pride and the hard work I put in every day at the store to earn my own money and support myself and my family. That is when I encountered a true and real threat to my life. After I simply told a woman that she could not have potato chips, because her payment was declined, I was face to face with her boyfriend, who seemed ready to kill me. He attacked me violently threw me around the store. The woman stabbed me herself. I truly believed they were there to kill me. So faced with this, I did what I knew I had to do to save my life. What the law — what the law allows me to do to save my life. I stabbed that man in self-defense. But when the police came, even though I was injured myself, I was placed under arrest. I was taken to jail.”