Police have released video of the man believed to have fatally stabbed a beloved upper Manhattan bodega worker after the employee asked them to move away from the storefront.

The suspect is wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, jeans and white sneakers in one of the two clips, which were released separately by police late Friday and show the stabber standing on the sidewalk appearing to have a lively conversation with a group of people whose faces are blurred out.

The second shows him walking on the sidewalk wearing the same clothes, with his hood up, his face almost completely covered and his head down.

Investigators are closing in on their suspect, who they believe knifed 28-year-old Mohamed Nasser Awawdah around 8 p.m. Wednesday, police sources said.

Awawdah had been working at his family’s Dyckman Kwik Stop in Inwood when he went outside and asked a group of men, including the person being sought by police, to stop loitering in front of the bodega, cops said.

After he was attacked, Awawdah was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, but he could not be saved.