Bronx man seen setting fire to deli after fight over cigars
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Video footage shows a disgruntled deli customer setting a Bronx, N.Y., shop on fire after he got into a fight with a worker over cigars, authorities said Tuesday.
The customer got into an argument with the 30-year-old shop clerk at the White Plains Road Deli around 5 a.m. Sunday because the worker wouldn’t let him leave with a box of cigars without immediately paying for them, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
The suspect — wearing a black hoodie and a denim jacket with leopard-print sleeves — told the clerk he would come back and pay for the stogies, but the worker refused to let him have the smokes, authorities said.
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About an hour later, the suspect returned — and poured a flammable liquid from a red canister on the front of the Wakefield store, police said.