In New York City—a bodega clerk is out of Rikers Island on a $50,000 bail, after being charged with murder in a stabbing death—that his family says was in self-defense.
Convicted felon Austin Simon on Friday night accosted the store clerk—reportedly after his girlfriend’s food-stamps card was electronically rejected as payment—and she accused the clerk—Jose Alba—of snatching a bag of potato chips from her daughter’s hand. The Daily Mail cites Alba’s family as saying that she then produced a knife from her purse and attacked Alba—before calling on her boyfriend for backup.
