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A Manhattan parking-garage employee who was shot in the stomach by a would-be thief earlier than wrestling the gun away and injuring the suspect, holds no ill-will in the direction of his assailant, a household pal advised The Post.
Moussa Diarra, 57, was initially hit with an attempted-murder rap for capturing his alleged attacker, Charles Rhodie.
The expenses were quickly dropped.
The two males tussled throughout an April 1 altercation at a Meyer’s Parking storage on West thirty first Street.
“He’s completely happy to be doing higher and to be launched quickly. He retains a optimistic thoughts, he’s a very good particular person. He’s not even offended about what occurred to him. We’re thanking God on a regular basis,” stated Mariame Diarra Souabo, a household pal who used to dwell in the identical house as Diarra and his household within the Bronx, stated of the attendant.
Souabo, like Diarra and his household, hails from West Africa, Ivory Coast. She stated the one particular person at the moment visiting him is his spouse. Souabo stated she spoke with Diarra over the cellphone on Thursday.
The parking attendant is “undecided on whether or not he’ll return to work,” she stated.
Just final week, Moussa Diarra wept as he lay handcuffed to his hospital bed, shocked at his predicament earlier than the Manhattan District Attorney’s workplace declined to press expenses.
“I obtained bullets in me, and I’m chained to a hospital mattress, however I didn’t do something mistaken,” Diarra lamented, based on Meyers Parking’s Chief Operating Officer Michael Carolan, who spoke to The Post.
Diarra was shot twice throughout a skirmish with Rhodie at Carolan’s West thirty first Street storage earlier than utilizing the accused man’s weapon to shoot him again.
Diarra was initially charged by cops within the case, together with with legal possession of a weapon for having Rhodie’s gun at one level, however Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s workplace dropped the raps a day later. Rhodie nonetheless faces expenses together with tried homicide.
