{"id":1544910,"date":"2022-07-08T15:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544910"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T19:35:02","slug":"nyc-bodega-worker-released-on-reduced-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-bodega-worker-released-on-reduced-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC bodega worker released on reduced bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-bodega-worker-released-on-reduced-bail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2722461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2722461\" class=\"wp-image-2722461 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/police-g6217cbee2_1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"Crime scene police tape in front of blue and red police lights at night. Image by Gerd Altmann\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/police-g6217cbee2_1280-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/police-g6217cbee2_1280-1-315x210-1.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/police-g6217cbee2_1280-1-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/police-g6217cbee2_1280-1-768x513-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2722461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crime scene police tape in front of blue and red police lights at night. Image by Gerd Altmann<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 3:15 PM PT \u2013 Friday, July 8, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>A New York bodega worker who was charged with murder for allegedly defending himself was released from jail after a judge reduced his bail. Manhattan\u2019s District Attorney\u2019s Office said 61-year-old Jose Alba was released from Riker\u2019s Island on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>After public outcry his bail was lowered from $250,000 to $50,000. Alba\u2019s family said he acted in self-defense when he allegedly killed 35-year-old Austin Simon. According to a criminal complaint, The July 1 incident began when a woman and her 10-year-old daughter entered a bodega around 11 p.m. and tried to purchase snacks. The woman told police that Alba reached over the counter and took the snacks away from the 10-year-old after the transaction didn\u2019t go through. She claimed she then left the store and informed her boyfriend Austin Simon of the clerk\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage shows Simon confronting Alba behind the counter and then Alba allegedly picked up a knife and fatally stabbed him multiple times in the neck and chest.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cMr. Alba was simply doing his job when he was aggressively cornered by a much younger and bigger man,\u201d Neighborhood Defender Service wrote in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">61-year-old bodega worker Jose Alba was attacked by an enraged career criminal, 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 murder. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FIfL1O1q7X\">pic.twitter.com\/FIfL1O1q7X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1545074624127729665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams said he cannot dictate or mandate how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg prosecutes crimes. Adams added that his heart goes out to the hard-working and honest Alba.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am hoping that we take all of that into consideration, as this hard-working New Yorker was doing his job and someone aggressively went behind the counter to attack him,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI support hard-working, innocent people that are doing their job.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prosecutors will present the case to a grand jury July 20. They wouldn\u2019t say if the murder charge was still on the table.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/pres-trump-on-abe-assassination-really-bad-news-for-the-world\/\">Pres. Trump On Abe Assassination: Really Bad News For The World<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime scene police tape in front of blue and red police lights at night. Image by Gerd Altmann OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 3:15 PM PT \u2013 Friday, July 8, 2022 A New York bodega worker who was charged with murder for allegedly defending himself was released from jail after a judge reduced his bail. Manhattan\u2019s District Attorney\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}