Sentenced: Teen Tourists Stabbed By Deranged Stranger At Grand Central Who Shouted ‘I Want All The White People Dead’ On Christmas

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Two teenage girls were randomly stabbed while enjoying a Christmas morning meal with their parents at a Grand Central Terminal restaurant — with their deranged attacker now facing attempted murder charges, authorities said.

The girls, a 14- and 16-year-old 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, WABC-TV reported.

The suspect, 36-year-old Steven Hutcherson, allegedly attacked the tourists after getting into a dispute with restaurant staffers who were trying to kick him out of the eatery, the outlet reported.

“I want all the white people dead,” Hutcherson allegedly yelled, law enforcement sources told The Post. “I want to sit next to the crackers.”

That’s when he allegedly lunged at the unsuspecting teens.

Less than a minute later, the cops arrested a suspect in the attack, who was identified as Hutcherson, MTA police said.

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.

FDNY EMS brought the girls to Bellevue Hospital to be treated for their injuries.

There was no immediate update on their conditions Tuesday.

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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D'awww. Sorry to spoil your hate-fest Steven. But I'm still here, pink as ever...

 

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Hey, hey, he's a "troubled vagrant", no hate crime here...

 

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The deranged attacker who allegedly stabbed two teenage tourists at Grand Central Terminal never should have been let out after he threatened a man in the Bronx just last month, the victim in that case said Tuesday.

Yussif Abdullahi, 46, was outraged after learning that Steven Hutcherson, 36, had been cut loose by a Bronx judge — just two weeks before he allegedly randomly knifed a 14-year-old girl and her 16-year-old sister as they enjoyed a Christmas Day meal with their family at a restaurant in the Grand Central concourse.

“They shouldn’t have let him out [of jail]. I don’t believe it,” he told The Post.

Abdullahi said his Nov. 7 run-in with Hutcherson was the most dangerous encounter he’s had since he moved to the US from Ghana in 2008.

He’d been working outside a freight truck depot in Hunts Point when he said he saw Hutcherson allegedly attacking a woman.

Hutcherson — a homeless man with a lengthy rap sheet and history of mental illness — then suddenly turned his ire on Abdullahi, yelling: “Why are you working for white people? I’m going to kill this man!”

“I’m gonna shoot you. I don’t care what kind of green card the government gave you,” Hutcherson said, according to the criminal complaint against him. “Open your mouth and say something. I will shoot you right now.”

At first, Abdullahi said he thought “maybe he’s high and going crazy.”

I was thinking maybe he was just saying it and didn’t mean it,” he recalled.

But when Abdullahi tried to walk into the workshop where he worked, he said the unhinged man blocked his path and showed him what appeared to be a gun tucked into his wasteband.

“He pulled a gun on me and said, ‘I don’t care what kind of green card you have, I’m gonna shoot you right now!” Abdullahi recalled.

Hutcherson stormed away, sucker-punching another man just one block away less than 30 minutes later, according to the complaint.

He was arrested at a nearby gas station and cops charged him with criminal possession of a weapon, menacing, harassment and assault.

Police did not recover a gun, but found a knife on him when they arrested him, according to law enforcement sources.

Hutcherson pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to conditional discharge on Dec. 12 by Judge Matthew V. Grieco, according to court records.

On Monday morning, Hutcherson allegedly became unhinged after workers at the Tartinery restaurant in the Midtown transit hub refused to serve him, shouting “I want all the white people dead” before suddenly lunging at the teens, tourist visiting from South America, cops and police sources said.

The 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the back and her younger sister was stabbed in the thigh. Both were hospitalized for minor injuries.

Abdullahi was shocked that Hutcherson was allowed to go free, and not surprised he would go on to be arrested in another violent incident.

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The deranged attacker who allegedly stabbed two teenage tourists at Grand Central Terminal never should have been let out after he threatened a man in the Bronx just last month, the victim in that …

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The unhinged vagrant accused of randomly stabbing two teen tourists at Grand Central Station was a stalker who suffered from paranoid delusions and was in dire need of psychiatric help, his ex-girlfriend told The Post Wednesday.

Charisma Knight, 37, said onetime beau Steven Hutcherson allegedly threatened to kill her “at least five times” in the past year and became increasingly deranged after he refused to take his meds for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

“I called the police all the time and said ‘he’s bipolar and schizophrenic, ‘he needs help, he needs help.’ These people actually do need help. If you’re just letting them go… he might just kill somebody,” Knight said from her East Harlem apartment.

“He should have been in a mental institution where he cannot come out and they can monitor him taking his medication,” she added.

Knight and Hutcherson, 36, met in elementary school and dated for three months in 2021 and then again for nine months, until October 2022, she said.

Hutcherson told her about his diagnoses, and how he was prescribed medication — but would refuse to take it, Knight said.

“I feel like sometimes he wants to die,” she said. “He says and does these things to people because he wants them to react so that he doesn’t have to kill himself.”

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Accused Grand Central stabber was stalker who belonged in jail or psych ward: ex-girlfriend

Accused Grand Central stabber Steven Hutcherson grew increasingly unhinged after refusing to take his meds for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, repeatedly threatening his ex, she told The Post.

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the sentencing of ESTEBAN ESONOASUE, a/k/a “Steven Hutcherson,” 38, to 26 1/3 – 29 years in state prison for attacking a woman with a fork and stabbing two teenage girls in unprovoked attacks in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day in 2023. On June 11, 2025, a New York Supreme Court jury found ESONOASUE guilty of one count each of Assault in the First Degree, Attempted Assault in the First Degree, Assault in the Second Degree and Attempted Assault in the Second Degree. He was also found guilty of two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.

“Esteban Esonoasue will serve a very significant prison term for attacking three victims, including two teenagers, at Grand Central Terminal,” said District Attorney Bragg. “My thoughts remain with the victims and their loved ones, who continue to navigate the psychological and emotional effects from this horrific attack. New Yorkers, commuters and tourists rely on the transit system daily and deserve to be safe when they travel, and we will hold those accountable who commit acts these of violence.”

As proven at trial, and according to court documents and statements made on the record in court, on December 25, 2023, ESONOASUE was sitting at a table in the Tartinery Café at Grand Central Terminal. At approximately 11:25 a.m., he picked up a fork from a dining table and scratched a woman’s neck with it.

ESONOASUE then took out a knife and approached a table across from him where two teenage girls were sitting with their family. He stabbed the 16-year-old in the back, deeply puncturing her and injuring her lung and diaphragm. He also stabbed the 14-year-old’s leg as she was trying to escape.

ESONOASUE dropped the knife and surrendered to police officers.

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D.A. Bragg Announces Prison Sentence Of Esteban Esonoasue For Christmas Day Attacks At Grand Central Terminal

“Esteban Esonoasue will serve a very significant prison term for attacking three victims, including two teenagers, at Grand Central Terminal,” said District Attorney Bragg. “My thoughts remain with the victims and their loved ones, who continue to navigate the psychological and emotional effects fro

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ESONOASUE, ESTEBAN​

Crime​	Class​
ASSAULT 1ST​	B​
ATT ASSAULT 1ST​	C​
ASSAULT 2ND​	D​
ATT ASSAULT 2ND​	E​

Aggregate Minimum Sentence: 22 Years, 9 Months, 2 Days​

Aggregate Maximum Sentence: 26 Years, 4 Months, 0 Days​

Earliest Release Date: 09/21/2046​

Maximum Expiration Date: 04/19/2050​