By Leah Simpson For Dailymail.com
Published: 16:31 GMT, 16 February 2019 | Updated: 16:32 GMT, 16 February 2019
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A New York woman has been charged with the Friday murder of a 70-year-old Army Veteran she labelled 'racist' before allegedly stabbing him to death in a Bronx grocery store.
Surveillance footage from inside the shop shows a woman who appears to be Madelyn Tamerez, 31, launching herself at victim who was buying coffee around 12.20pm and shoppers pulling her off the man who lived nearby at the New Era Veterans Home.
The suspect – who witnesses said was known to carry a kitchen knife and appeared intoxicated at the time - left the supermarket but then returned 15 minutes later with a weapon and stabbed him in the torso three of four times before fleeing.
Madelyn Tamerez, 31, was charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the Friday killing of a 70-year-old Army veteran
Surveillance footage from a New York grocery store shows the suspect attacking the unidentified man, leaving for 15 minutes and returning to stab him with knife
'He was a good guy. I know him long time. He would come to the store every day and relax, drink coffee, talk,' Sam Aden, whose father owns the store, told Pix 11.
A weapon with a blue handle was pictured in the street following the incident that began with a verbal dispute.
Store co-owner Abdo Kaid, 29, described blood all over the bodega and on the pavement outside.
Calling her a