A man has been charged with murder, after an altercation at a Newcastle service station last night.
Just after 8pm, a 24-year-old man entered a service station on Sandgate Road at Shortland, allegedly armed with a knife.
He allegedly threatened an employee before running to a second service station, also on Sandgate Road, where he was involved in an argument with a 54-year-old man, who was walking his dog.
Witnesses told police the argument became physical and the older man was stabbed in the abdomen, and died at the scene.
Police later attended a home on Sandgate Road and tried to speak with 24-year-old man, but he had to be Tasered before he was arrested.
He was taken to Newcastle Police Station where he has now been charged with murder.
The man has been refused bail to appear in Newcastle Local Court later today.
Initial inquiries suggest the two men were not know to each other.
