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"He's not happy how the situation played out that night, because it ended in the death of a young man who was engaged...he felt he had no other choice but to defend himself."

"I believe there were several people who were potentially attacking my client," said suspect Redinal Dervishaj's lawyer. "It looks like he has a decent self-defense case."

One witness said the restaurant manager tried to shoot them during the brawl: "He went to pull the trigger again, and that’s when Anthony saved my life. Anthony attacked him.”

According to the Post, Lacertosa had gone outside to check on his brothers, who had gotten kicked out of the restaurant and retaliated by urinating against the wall of a restaurant, sparking the fight.

A Staten Island man was fatally stabbed early this morning outside of a restaurant where he and his fiancee had been celebrating their recent engagement.