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NEW YORK -- The altercation and the death inside a Hamilton Heights bodega on July 1 made headlines far and wide. A clerk stabbed a patron to death and was jailed on Rikers Island and then set free.
On Tuesday, the charges have been dropped.
Video clearly shows 61-year-old Jose Alba stab 35-year-old Austin Simon inside the Blue Moon Convenience Store, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said his office could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the incident was a homicide and that Alba may have been justified in his use of deadly physical force.