A clerk at a Bronx bodega who was charged with second-degree murder as he was fending off an attack from a violent ex-convict appeared to have been trying to diffuse the situation before it escalated.
Jose Alba, 61, was seen stabbing 35-year-old Austin Simon after Simon went behind the counter and pushed the clerk into a wall. Alba is seen sitting against the wall as Simon berates him and makes menacing gestures toward him.
