The Independent has reached out to Mr Alba’s family members for comment. “Those four aspects of the package, the bail amount, the surrender of the passport, the electronic monitoring, and the travel restrictions, are the conditions that we believe will ensure the defendant’s return to court while the People continue to investigate this incident,” the statement read. The DA’s office said in a statement to The Independent that it had lowered the requested bond following “conversations” with Mr Alba’s legal team. Prosecutors had until Thursday to either release Mr Alba on bail or bring the charges before a grand jury. Mr Alba’s attorney Danielle Jackson of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem said in court that he has “every intention” of returning to court to clear his name. He was also ordered to surrender his passport, wear an ankle monitor and stay within the five boroughs of New York City. Hours later, a judge agreed to lower his bail to $50,000 and his family, with the help of the bodega owner, were able to post the $5,000 bond to release him from Rikers Island. “My heart goes out for this hard-working, honest New Yorker that was doing his job in his place of business, where a person came in and went behind the counter and attacked him,” he said. Mayor Eric Adams has also come out in support of Mr Alba saying his “heart goes out for this hard-working, honest New Yorker” in a press conference on Thursday. He’s never had an altercation where he had to defend himself. “It was either him or the guy at the moment,” Mr Alba’s daughter Yulissa told The New York Post. The case – as well as the unusually high bond in the city – sparked uproar from Mr Alba’s family as well as members of the community who say the well-loved store worker with no criminal record had no choice when he came under attack. Meanwhile, no charges have been brought against Mr Simon’s girlfriend for stabbing the bodega worker. Prosecutors had argued that Mr Alba was a flight risk because the Dominican Republic native had a holiday planned there. He was sent to the notorious Rikers Island jail and a judge ordered him to be held on $250,000 bond – less than half the $500,000 prosecutors asked for. Mr Alba was arrested on the scene and was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. The 37-year-old then grabs Mr Alba by the back of his shirt and pulls him up out of his chair out of the counter area. Mr Simon continues to square up in the shop worker’s face shouting at him the person in front of the counter. Mr Alba falls back and lands in a chair by the wall.Ī hand is seen reaching over the counter during the incident. He confronts Mr Alba and violently shoves the 62-year-old against the shelves. In it, Mr Simon is seen suddenly entering the space behind the counter where Mr Alba is serving customers. What happens next was captured on surveillance footage inside the store. The girlfriend, who has not been publicly named, wanted to buy a bag of chips for her daughter but she didn’t have enough money to pay for them, said police.Īt that point, she allegedly ran out of the store to get her boyfriend. Colbran insisted that content creators have little protection on social media platforms and "trolls" can leave hateful comments with no repercussions.It was around 11pm on Friday (1 July) when the NYPD said that Mr Simon’s girlfriend and her young daughter entered the Bluemoon Convenient Store in Harlem where Mr Alba has worked behind the counter for decades. Many of Colbran's TikTok videos are often removed from the platform because of several people reporting them, despite the videos not breaking any guidelines on the platform. I think that half of them don’t even know what it means and the other half just says it because everyone else says it." People chanting that isn’t nice and it’s not right. "I’ve got five kids, three granddaughters and they have to hear that. All this was about me collabing with a 21-year-old, that’s where this name came about which doesn’t make you that kind of person. "The things they chant I just wanna get that out of the way because people just jump on a bandwagon. "I didn’t expect it to be that bad," Colbran said of the vulgar comments he received at the press conference. What are your thoughts on the fight between Simple Simon and Ed Matthews? Let us know in the comments section below
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