A bodega employee was arrested on homicide fees after a stabbing over potato chips.
Robert Mecea
A Manhattan bodega employee was arrested for allegedly stabbing a person to loss of life throughout a combat over a bag of chips, police stated Saturday.
Jose Alba, 51, is accused of plunging a knife into the chest of 37-year-old Austin Simon contained in the Hamilton Heights Grocery on Broadway close to West 139th Road late Friday evening, the NYPD stated.
The violent combat stemmed from an earlier argument Alba allegedly had with a girl who was seeking to purchase a bag of chips however apparently didn’t have sufficient money to pay for the snack, cops stated.
The client, who had entered the shop with a baby, then stormed out and summoned Simon, an NYPD spokesman stated.
The 2 males received right into a verbal spat that “turned bodily” when Simon apparently “went across the counter” and attacked the shop employee, who then “selected to take a knife and plunge it into the sufferer’s chest,” the spokesman stated.
Police received to the bodega after receiving a 911 name of an assault in progress there at about 11:05 p.m. — and located Simon stabbed twice within the chest and as soon as within the neck, cops stated.
EMS took Simon to Harlem Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless.
Alba was hauled in for questioning and later charged with homicide and prison possession of a weapon. Police recovered the knife on the scene.
The incident was considered one of two lethal stabbings reported in Queens and Harlem late Friday and early Saturday, police stated.
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