Don't like your change in coins? How about this karate knife?
The Bayonne convenience store owner charged Monday night with stabbing a customer with a brass knuckle dagger said yesterday that he was protecting himself and his family when he slashed the customer, who had threatened him and had begun to trash his store.
But the victim, a Brooklyn man, said last night that he only threatened physical violence after he was shoved by the store owner and then attacked with a “karate-looking” knife.
Mokhtar Samuel, 37, the owner of Misty Deli & Grocery at 462 Avenue C, has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and possession of a weapon, police said.
According to police, the Brooklyn man entered the store at around 7:45 p.m. Monday and purchased cigarettes. An argument ensued about the number of coins he was receiving in change and Samuel attacked him with a “No. 4 blade brass knuckle dagger with a 7-inch-long blade,” police said, adding the victim was cut on two fingers.
Free on bail, Samuel said yesterday at his store that his wife politely handed the man change in coins and the man threw it in her face and began cursing.
“The quarter is money or not money? — It’s money,” Samuel said.
After telling the customer to leave, Samuel said the customer began ripping items off shelves and threatened to kill him, and refused to leave the store.
“I see my kids (ages 2, 4 and 6) cry, cry, cry and my wife scared inside,” he explained. “I [was] waiting for the cops and the cops is not coming.”
Samuel said he eventually got his dagger from behind the counter and waved it to scare off the customer. “I tell the police officer, you can check the camera. I not touch the guy with the knife,” he said.
But according to Jeffrey Griffith of Brooklyn, he had turned to leave the store when Samuel shoved him from behind.
“I told him if he touched me a again I was going to (expletive) him up. So then he ran and grabbed a karate-looking knife. Then he was coming at me with this crazy-looking knife and we must have had a fight for 15 minutes ... I kept telling him stop,” Griffith said last night in a phone interview.
According to police, Griffith brandished his own 3-inch knife, but that was to protect himself.
But the convenience store owner said yesterday that the Brooklyn man tried to plunge the blade of that 3-inch knife into his heart.
Griffith, who said he was in Bayonne visiting his daughter and his fiancee, has not been charged with any crimes.
Samuel believes he acted properly. “I have saved my life, my kids’ life and my wife’s life,” he said.
But the victim, a Brooklyn man, said last night that he only threatened physical violence after he was shoved by the store owner and then attacked with a “karate-looking” knife.
Mokhtar Samuel, 37, the owner of Misty Deli & Grocery at 462 Avenue C, has been charged with aggravated assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and possession of a weapon, police said.
According to police, the Brooklyn man entered the store at around 7:45 p.m. Monday and purchased cigarettes. An argument ensued about the number of coins he was receiving in change and Samuel attacked him with a “No. 4 blade brass knuckle dagger with a 7-inch-long blade,” police said, adding the victim was cut on two fingers.
Free on bail, Samuel said yesterday at his store that his wife politely handed the man change in coins and the man threw it in her face and began cursing.
“The quarter is money or not money? — It’s money,” Samuel said.
After telling the customer to leave, Samuel said the customer began ripping items off shelves and threatened to kill him, and refused to leave the store.
“I see my kids (ages 2, 4 and 6) cry, cry, cry and my wife scared inside,” he explained. “I [was] waiting for the cops and the cops is not coming.”
Samuel said he eventually got his dagger from behind the counter and waved it to scare off the customer. “I tell the police officer, you can check the camera. I not touch the guy with the knife,” he said.
But according to Jeffrey Griffith of Brooklyn, he had turned to leave the store when Samuel shoved him from behind.
“I told him if he touched me a again I was going to (expletive) him up. So then he ran and grabbed a karate-looking knife. Then he was coming at me with this crazy-looking knife and we must have had a fight for 15 minutes ... I kept telling him stop,” Griffith said last night in a phone interview.
According to police, Griffith brandished his own 3-inch knife, but that was to protect himself.
But the convenience store owner said yesterday that the Brooklyn man tried to plunge the blade of that 3-inch knife into his heart.
Griffith, who said he was in Bayonne visiting his daughter and his fiancee, has not been charged with any crimes.
Samuel believes he acted properly. “I have saved my life, my kids’ life and my wife’s life,” he said.
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