The parents of a suspected shoplifter have expressed that they do not wish for the Queens bodega worker, who is accused of stabbing their son to death, to be incarcerated.

Dylan Marino tragically lost his life on Tuesday after authorities reported that he had attempted to nick a beer from a bodega in Rego Park. The United Bodegas of America has mentioned that Netesh Netesh, a shop clerk, pursued Marino outdoors to retrieve the stolen beer, and during a tussel, he stabbed the 21-year-old.

Kate DeSommes, the mother of Marino, lamented, “A bodega employee caused the death of my child over a single beer.”

While the shop clerk was taken into custody, he was released shortly thereafter as prosecutors stated the investigation is still ongoing. The UBA insists that the shop clerk reacted in self-defense.

<a href=”https://www.news4.com/story” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>”It’s clear to everyone that this man was defending himself and his life could have been taken away,” said Fernando Mateo.</a>

<a href=”https://www.desommesclaims.com/story” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>DeSommes blasted the UBA spokesman, whom she claims slandered her son as being violent.</a>

<a href=”https://www.tapepublished.com/story” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>”He was pursued by a bodega employee outside the store. It was absolutely, 100% not self-defense,” she said. “This tape has been published.”</a>

<a href=”https://www.news4verified.com/story” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>News 4 viewed the video DeSommes is referring to, showing what appears to be the clerk first chasing Marino, then Marino chasing the clerk into the street. It is unclear what happened before Marino is stabbed. News 4 has not independently verified the video.</a>

“The DA’s office right now, they’re accumulating video tape, trying to see exactly what happened,” said former prosecutor Michael Bachner. “If Mr. Marino was choking Mr. Netish, or using aggression against him, and Mr. Netesh believed he needed to use deadly physical force to protect himself, no jury in the world would convict.”

DeSommes is confident the clerk will be charged in her son’s murder, but her sights are set on a specific end goal.

“I do not want him to be incarcerated. I know that will ruin his life,” she said. Instead, she wants her son’s death to not have been in vain.

“Restorative justice is when the district attorney and the victim and the perpetrator and the perpetrator’s representatives come together and discuss the situation,” she said. “No one should be incarcerated at Rikers. It is a human atrocity.”

Marino’s funeral was planned for Saturday morning. DeSommes extended an invitation to the ex-inmates from Rikers that she might have assisted to serve as his pallbearers.