A CVS worker who fatally stabbed a shoplifter inside a Midtown store was acquitted of a manslaughter charge by a Manhattan jury Thursday – then tore into prosecutors for bringing the case.
“People are on drugs and just harassing people and doing whatever they want, they get away with it, but the minute you stand up for yourself, the prosecutors want to put you in jail,” an overjoyed Scotty Enoe, 48, told The Post after jurors took just 20 minutes to reach a not guilty verdict in the July 2023 death of Charles Brito.
“Something needs to be done, because these people harass people ever day. Every single day they are harassing hard working people,” Enoe added, referring to serial shoplifters.
The jury convicted Enoe on a lower misdemeanor weapons count for possessing the knife he used to stab Brito, but his lawyers don’t believe he will face any jail time on that charge.
Enoe had claimed to have acted in self defense to protect himself and his coworkers from a “crazy” man who had just “beat the s–t” out of him with his fists.
A juror said she believed the manslaughter acquittal was “the right thing to do.
“I wish him all the best, he deserves to be found innocent and to live his life,” juror Adriana Corben, 33, physician, told The Post.
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