VIDEO: Elderly Manhattan store worker stabs enraged customer to death

A surveillance video released on Tuesday by the New York Post shows the moment a worker at a Manhattan bodega allegedly stabbed an enraged customer to death.

In the footage, the elderly worker can be seen serving customers behind the counter at the Hamilton Heights grocery store on Broadway. Seconds later, he is confronted by a younger man.  

The customer apparently starts yelling at the store employee, goes around the counter, and pushes him against a shelf. After several struggles, the worker walks over to the candy shelves and grabs a large knife, stabbing the customer in the neck, the video shows.

For a few seconds, the two move away from the camera, but the store clerk returns and is seen with blood splattered and the knife completely bloody.

The customer was identified as Austin Simon, 37, who was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder. Woman who didn't have enough money for her item, went to the car to get her boyfriend, who then came behind the counter to attack the clerk.. Jose Alba, 51, cut the man up, and is being charged with murder. Held on $250,000 bail. #NYC pic.twitter.com/kZ3Ju5yVDq

— YouDontHaveToWatch (@StarsAndBars123) July 6, 2022

According to reports cited by the Post, the confrontation began around 11:00 p.m. on Friday when a woman entered the store to buy potato chips. Not having enough cash to make the purchase, she storms out of the store and calls Simon.

Then, Simon entered the business and confronted the employee, identified as Jose Alba, 51.

Alba was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. He was being held at Rikers Island on $250,000 bail and is due back in Manhattan court this Thursday.