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Teen: I had to stab Dad to save Mom

Fourteen-year-old Mohammed Nasser said he had no choice but to wrest a knife away from his drunken stepfather and fatally stab him when the man arrived home in Queens and tried to stick the knife into his mother and older brother.

"Well, he threatened me and my family, so I had to do what I had to do to protect my brother and my mother and my other little brother," Nasser said Thursday outside...

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