New York, 3 July 2022 – The wave of violence that is sweeping the United States shows no sign of stopping. The clerk of a New York store has stabbed a customer to death after a fight over a packet of chips. Joe Alba, 51, killed Austin Simon, 37, inside a grocery store on Broadway, at 139th West. According to an initial reconstruction of the facts, the quarrel broke out after the clerk was angry with a woman who had taken a packet of potato chips but did not have enough cash to pay.
The 37-year-old victim, who had entered the shop with a child, after witnessing the scene took it out on the clerk, insulting him. Quind Joe Alba grabbed a knife and got it hit the client twice in the chest and once in the neck. Rushed to Harlem Hospital, 51-year-old Simon died shortly after. The shop assistant was arrested instead.