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A 51-year-old New York City bodega worker is in jail for stabbing a would-be thief who rose over the worktop in a fight over the price of snacks in the store.
Video reveals the employee Jose Alba sitting behind a counter at the Hamilton Heights grocery store, tending to customers on Friday night.
A man then pushed Alba into a shelf and seemed to fight him, before shouting at another customer attempting to buy something.
He pulled Alba up out of the chair, at which point Alba reached to the right toward shelves showing a variety of candy and pulled out a big knife.
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He plunged it into the man's neck and chest five times.
Now, Alba has been charged with murdering the man, identified as 37-year-old Austin Simon - to the wrath of his family and many locals who say he was attempting to defend himself amid a dizzying increase in crime in New York City.
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Critics are now furious that Alba, a mostly law-abiding family man and business owner, is being held at Riker's while other repeat offenders are routinely let loose on New York City streets.
A GoFundMe account set up for the Alba's legal fund raised $20,000 in 24 hours.
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According to the NYPD, the incident started at roughly 11pm on Friday after a woman entered the store with her 10-year-old daughter to purchase several items.
Yet the woman's EBT card was rejected, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Daily News, and Alba reached over the counter to take the snacks away from the girl.
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"She said, 'I'm going to get my man, and he's going to get you,'" he argued.
Simon then walked around the counter and confronted Alba - leading to the confrontation caught on surveillance footage.
"He grabbed Jose by the neck and tried to get him to apologize to the girl," Ahmad stated, adding: "He pushed Jose first, Jose was just defending himself.
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"Jose said 'I don't want any problems.'"
Yet allegedly, he wound up stabbing Simon at least five times.
According to police records, Alba told officers on the scene: "He wanted me to come apologize to the girl. I took the knife we use to open boxes, and I stabbed him."
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Alba was then reportedly brought to a local hospital for his wounds before being incarcerated.
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