Manhattan bodega worker, Jose Alba, allegedly stabs “Amiri” attacker to death after the enraged man came around the counter and attacked him over a bag of chips.
The worker is first seen on the shocking video tending to customers from behind the counter at the Hamilton Heights Grocery store on Broadway — when he is suddenly confronted by a younger man.
The customer, identified as 37-year-old Austin Simon, was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The deadly beef reportedly started around 11 p.m. Friday when a woman entered the store with a child at Broadway and 139th Street to buy a back of chips, according to police.
But police said the unidentified woman didn’t have enough cash for the snack and instead stormed out of the store — and summoned Simon.
That’s when Simon charged into the store, went behind the counter and confronted the store clerk leading to the deadly stabbing.
Police responding to reports of an assault at the bodega arrested Alba and charged him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Alba was being held on Rikers Island on $250,000 bail Tuesday and is due back in Manhattan court on Thursday.
Horrendous video shows NYC bodega worker Jose Alba allegedly stabbing customer Austin Simon to death
Police said the unidentified woman didn’t have enough cash for the snack and instead stormed out of the store — and summoned Simon.https://t.co/UgJiDhzxPb pic.twitter.com/RpXPGskcC6
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