José Alba, aged 52, was arrested for the death of a man he stabbed during a fight over some fries in a Harlem warehouse.
The NYPD captured the business employee, after being accused of sticking a knife in the chest of Austin Simon, aged 37 years old.
The deadly confrontation occurred inside the Hamilton Heights grocery store on Broadway near West 139th Street on Friday night.
The employee had had an argument with a woman who had taken some French fries, but she did not have enough cash to pay, due to her frustration, the woman left the premises and called Simon, but the relationship between the two has not been described, indicates a report by The New York Post.
The woman was with a child when the events occurred. She stormed out and Simon came back to confront the store clerk.
Before reaching a physical confrontation, the two men yelled at each other, until Simon entered the clerk’s area of the store, behind the counter, where Alba decided to take a knife and stab her victim in the chest.
However, the The employee decided to inflict two more stab wounds, one in the chest and the other in the neck, the NYPD confirmed regarding the events that occurred after 00: 00 pm
Although 911 was called and paramedics soon arrived to transport Simon to Harlem Hospital, the man was pronounced dead.
EMS took Simon to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Alba was detained by the Police and now faces charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon.