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New surveillance footage has emerged of bodega worker Jose Alba, 61, trying to fend off the gangster he stabbed to death and his girlfriend as the pair attacked him in his store in a row over a $3 bag of chips.
Alba has been charged with second-degree murder for the incident on July 1.
He used the store's boxcutter to stab Austin Simon in the neck and chest after he charged into the store wearing a $350 Amiri t-shirt, demanding that Alba apologize to his girlfriend.
She had tried to buy a bag of chips but her card was declined as she tried to pay for them. Alba refused to let her have the chips which sent her running in a rage to call her boyfriend for back-up.
The girlfriend has not been charged, despite the video clearly showing her stabbing Alba in the arm.