Tyron Holder remains hospitalized more than a week after a quick stop for a protein drink at a downtown Indianapolis gas station turned into a deadly encounter.

Holder, a U.S. Postal Service driver, says he was walking into the store he frequents because it's close to work when John Bouvier Green Jr. passed him and snapped, "What the [expletive] you looking at?"

Assuming Green was a troublemaker wanting attention, Holder said, "just leave," because he didn't have the energy for a confrontation. He said Green told him to come outside to fight before spitting on Holder, who pulled out his pepper spray.

As the two were in the store's doorway, Holder said he didn't know what happened, but something was wrong.

"I felt my body deflate, and I was numb," Holder told IndyStar. "It didn’t hurt.

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