Teen tourists stabbed by deranged stranger at Grand Central who shouted ‘I want all the white people dead’ on Christmas: police

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Teen tourists stabbed by deranged stranger at Grand Central who shouted ‘I want all the white people dead’ on Christmas: police

Suspect Steven Hutcherson, 36, was arrested less than a minute after the stabbings.

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Teen tourists stabbed by deranged stranger at Grand Central who shouted ‘I want all the white people dead’ on Christmas: police​

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Published Dec. 26, 2023

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A troubled vagrant randomly stabbed two teenage girls enjoying a Christmas morning meal with their parents at a Grand Central Terminal restaurant — after ranting that he wanted “all white people dead,” authorities said.
The girls, 14- and 16-year-olds visiting from South America, were attacked at Tartinery in the Grand Central Dining Concourse around 11:25 a.m. Monday and suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds, police and sources said.
“I want all the white people dead,” the suspect, Steven Hutcherson, 36, allegedly yelled, according to police sources. “I want to sit next to the crackers.”
He then allegedly lunged at the unsuspecting teens, plunging a knife into the 16-year-old’s back, nicking her lungs, and stabbing the younger girl in the thigh, police and a law enforcement source said.
Hutcherson — who cops and sources said has a slew of prior arrests and a history of mental health issues — had allegedly popped up at the restaurant and said he wanted a table but wasn’t going to order anything, staffers told The Post.
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Steven Hutcherson is accused of stabbing two teenage girls in Grand Central Station. Michael Nagle
When he was still refused, he allegedly became irate and pointed to the victims’ family, arguing that they weren’t eating anything at the time — then went off, grabbed a knife and attacked the girls, the staffers said.
Nearby transit police officers rushed over in less than a minute and Hutcherson dropped the knife as soon as they arrived, the MTA said.
“Everyone was just running,” a veteran MTA employee who witnessed the incident said Tuesday, calling the scene “chaotic.”
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Two girls, ages 14 and 16, were stabbed by a 36-year-old man inside Grand Central Terminal’s Dining Concourse on Christmas Day, MTA said. Getty Images
Hutcherson was booked on felony counts of attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child, according to the MTA.
He was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday.
FDNY EMS took the girls, who sources said were staying at a nearby Midtown hotel, to Bellevue Hospital to be treated for their injuries.
A hotel worker said the teens were released from the hospital later that day, and “are OK.”
Hutcherson has 17 prior arrests on his rap sheet, sources said. He also has been classified as an “emotionally disturbed person” in prior brushes with police, according to the law enforcement sources.
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The tourists were attacked while eating at Tartinery. Paul Martinka
Prior to Monday’s incident, he was last arrested Nov. 7 for allegedly threatening to “shoot” a stranger in the Bronx.
“I’m gonna shoot you. I don’t care what kind of green card the government gave you,” he said, according to the criminal complaint against him. “Open your mouth and say something. I will shoot you right now.”
He then pulled what the victim believed was a gun “from the side of his pants,” according to the complaint — though law enforcement sources said cops didn’t find a firearm on him but did recover a knife.
Hutcherson was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, menacing, harassment and assault.
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The victims, ages 14 and 16, suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the attack inside Grand Central’s Dining Concourse. Paul Martinka
He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced Dec. 12 to conditional discharge, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said.
“They shouldn’t have let him out [of jail]. I don’t believe it,” the victim in that case, Yussif Abdullahi, 46, told The Post on Tuesday.
“DAs are chopping all the charges down. Judges are letting him go,” a law enforcement source added.
“Now we’ve got two teenagers who were stabbed.”
Hutcherson’s arrest last month followed his Oct. 27 sentencing to 15 days in jail in an earlier case from this summer, also in the Bronx, the DA’s Office said.
It’s not clear how much of the 15 days Hutcherson actually served.
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The suspected stabber had gotten into a fight with restaurant staff. Paul Martinka
That case stemmed from a July 24 arrest, for which he had been charged with resisting arrest, according to court records.
Police sources said he walked into the 44th Precinct stationhouse acting belligerent and that cops found a dagger and a switchblade when they arrested him after escorting him out.
He later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor weapon possession charges.
Hutcherson was also arrested on Oct. 2 and charged with smashing a display case at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan, causing $81,000 in damage, according to a criminal complaint.
Manhattan prosecutors said he was initially ordered held on $3,000 bail in that case and pleaded guilty to second-degree menacing on Oct. 12 for which he was also sentenced to 15 days in jail.

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Sources said Hutcherson also had two recent incidents in which police were called over reports of erratic behavior in the Bronx — screaming on a street in Mt. Hope on Nov. 23 and a Sept. 11 dispute at the 176th Street subway station, during which he was stabbed.


The teen girls he is now accused of stabbing were visiting from Paraguay, Paraguay Consulate General in the US Carlos Alberto Ortiz confirmed to ABC, claiming that Hutcherson had “psychiatric problems.”

 

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Accused Grand Central stabber slashed fellow inmate with ceramic blade in unprovoked attack: police sources

The vagrant accused of stabbing two teen tourists at Grand Central Terminal allegedly slashed a fellow Rikers Island inmate in the face Thursday morning, law enforcement sources told The Post.

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The unhinged man accused of stabbing two teen tourists at Grand Central Terminal allegedly slashed a fellow inmate in an unprovoked attack at Rikers Island Thursday, law enforcement sources told The Post.


Steven Hutcherson, 36 — who was being held without bail over the random Christmas Day stabbing — allegedly suddenly got up from his cot in a dorm at the Eric M. Taylor Center and pounced on the 43-year-old man lying just feet away from him at around 8 a.m., the sources said.


He used a 1.5-inch ceramic blade to slash the other inmate, leaving gashes across the left side of his face and head, according to the sources.


A correction officer intervened quickly, pepper-spraying Hutcherson and rushing the victim to the jail infirmary.


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Steven Hutcherson is accused of stabbing two teenage tourists at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day.
The injured man was later brought to Elmhurst Hospital to be treated for the slash wounds, which sources said were between 1-and-5 inches long.


A city Department of Correction spokesman said Hutcherson, who also uses the name Esteban Esono-Asue, “will be processed for rearrest for this incident.”


The DOC was investigating how he was able to get his hands on the blade.


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Steven Hutcherson allegedly stabbed an inmate at Rikers Island Thursday. Michael Nagle/NY Post
Hutcherson was scanned for weapons when he got to Rikers after his Tuesday night arraignment on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges in the Grand Central stabbing — and none were found at the time, DOC sources said.


Hutcherson — who has a history of mental health issues and at least 17 prior arrests — also underwent a physical and psychological evaluation by city Correctional Health Services, and cleared to be placed with the general population at Rikers, the sources said.


“Sometimes they fool the psychiatrist,” one frustrated DOC source said. “Basically, they are brought in, they talk to a psychiatrist, they ask a number of questions, pretty generic stuff. That’s up to the inmate whether he wants to be honest or not.”


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Department of Corrections officials are now investigating how Hutcherson was allegedly able to get his hands on the weapon. David Castillo
Still, the source noted that based on the allegations against him, it was shocking Hutcherson hadn’t automatically been sent to a specialized unit for people with mental illness.


“Don’t you think a guy who stabbed two young girls should automatically be in a mental observation unit?” the source asked.


“That’s the problem,” the source added. “He’s going to do it again and eventually he’s going to succeed and kill someone.”


The source added it’s “not uncommon” for weapons to find their way into the jail.


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Hutcherson was ordered held without bail at his Tuesday night arraignment on attempted murder and assault charges in the attack at a French restaurant inside the Grand Central dining concourse. Paul Martinka
Hutcherson was transferred to a separate Rikers jail where he will be confined for 14 hours a day and be housed away from other inmates, according to sources.


He was due to appear back in Manhattan court Friday in the attack at a French restaurant inside the Grand Central dining concourse.


“I don’t want to sit with the black people. I want to sit with the crackers,” Hutcherson, who is black, allegedly said inside Tartinery on Monday morning, before pulling a knife and stabbing a 16-year-old girl in the back and her 14-year-old sister in the leg.


The victims, tourists from Paraguay in town with their family, were treated at a local hospital and released.


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The victims, 14 and 16-year-old sisters visiting from Paraguay, were enjoying a meal with their family when Hutcherson allegedly grabbed a knife and stabbed the girls. Paul Martinka
Just two weeks earlier, Hutcherson was in front of a Bronx judge, pleading guilty to third-degree assault for threatening to kill a stranger on Nov. 7.


“Why are you working for white people? I’m going to kill this man” he yelled, according to victim Yussif Abdullahi.


Prosecutors asked that he be sentenced to 30 days in jail — which would have kept him behind bars on Christmas Day, according to a transcript of the Dec. 12 hearing.


Judge Matthew Grieco instead sentenced Hutcherson to a conditional discharge — meaning the case would be dropped if he stayed out of trouble for a year — and two psychiatric therapy sessions.


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Records show he has at least 17 prior arrests and at least a half dozen emotional disturbance encounters with police. David Castillo
Grieco also issued an order of protection for the victim — which sent Hutcherson into a fit of giggles.


“I’m laughing because it’s a funny name,” he told the judge.


Hutcherson also bizarrely asked to be identified as “Ms. Hutcherson” during the proceedings, according to the transcript.


An ex-girlfriend, Charisma Knight, has said Hutcherson told her he was schizophrenic and bipolar — but refused to take his prescribed medications during their relationship.


The Legal Aid Society, which represents Hutchinson, declined to comment Thursday on the alleged Rikers attack.


The inmate he allegedly slashed is a person of color, sources said.


The City Council last week passed a controversial bill banning solitary confinement in Big Apple lockups.


“This is exactly the kind of dangerous, violent person that this new law will embolden at the expense of corrections officers and inmates who will be in grave danger if this legislation goes into practice,” a source said.


The Corrections Officer Benevolent Association, the union that represents the city’s 6,000 DOC employees, has warned that the law — set to take effect next year — would jeopardize the safety of officers and inmates at the jails.



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“Today’s heinous attack at EMTC by the same serial stabber, who attacked two innocent teenagers at Grand Central, demonstrates exactly why we need to maintain punitive segregation in our jails,” COBA President Benny Boscio said in a statement Thursday.


Correction officials said this week that more than 2,700 weapons have been confiscated from inmates at city jails since the end of February.

 

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Rikers inmate reportedly shivved by alleged Grand Central stabber had 26 prior arrests, once charged with attempted murder

Hutcherson, who has a long record of his own, allegedly stabbed two teen tourists at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas morning.

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Rikers inmate reportedly shivved by alleged Grand Central stabber had 26 prior arrests, once charged with attempted murder​

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The man who was reportedly shivved on Rikers Island by a maniac who had allegedly just stabbed two girls at Grand Central station is a 6-foot-4, 240-pound hulk with a long history of run-ins with the law himself, The Post has learned.
Lawrence Browning, who has 26 prior arrests, was sleeping in his bed in the jail Thursday morning when Steven Hutcherson, 36, slashed him four times in the face, a law enforcement source said.
Browning was rushed to a hospital but returned to Rikers the following day, the source said.
Hutcherson, who is 5’11’’ and weighs 210 pounds, was brought to Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward after the sneak attack, officials said.
He’s awaiting arraignment for allegedly slashing Browning.
Hutcherson, who has a long record of his own, allegedly stabbed two teen tourists at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas morning.
Browning, 43, was most recently arrested Dec. 27 on a warrant from Monmouth County, N.J., police said. It wasn’t clear what the warrant was for, cops said.
He was also June 15 and charged with petit larceny, criminal contempt and criminal possession of a weapon after allegedly pointing a “big knife” at a family member and threatening kill him at a home in Staten Island, cops said.
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Steven Hutcherson allegedly shivved his cellmate at Rikers in the face with a sharp object as the inmate slept. Michael Nagle
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Hutcherson had been busted many times previously and released.
Most of the charges against Browning over the years have been gun related.
He was arrested on an attempted murder charge on June 17, 2010, after he allegedly pointed a loaded firearm at someone inside the hallway of a Staten Island apartment building and discharged several rounds, cops said. Nobody was struck.
Then on Nov. 18, 2012, he was charged with assaulting two police officers in Staten Island, cops said.
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The girls were tourists from South America and were dining at a restaurant when Hutcherson attacked them with a knife. AFP via Getty Images



Cops were responding to reports of a man with a knife when they encountered Browning, who allegedly kicked and punched them as they tried to arrest him. He became violent and irate, threatening them with the knife, cops said.


Browning has also been charged with petit larceny, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal contempt, cops said.