By The newspaper
Two sisters, ages 14 and 16, were stabbed while eating with their parents in the Dining Concourse at New York’s Grand Terminal station on Christmas Day.
Steven Hutcherson was arrested as a suspect and charged with attempted murder, assault, hate crime and endangering the welfare of a minor for the attack on the visitors from South America, reported ABCNews.
The 36-year-old suspect reportedly became enraged when staff at the Tartinery restaurant told him he could not sit near the minors. According to police, he pulled out a knife and stabbed each of them, shouting, “I want all the white people dead.”
Hutcherson is known to both MTA Police and NYPD as an emotionally disturbed person with 17 prior arrests.
Steven Hutcherson, a 36-year-old black male with 17 prior arrests, was once arrested again on Christmas morning for allegedly stabbing two teenage girls at Grand Central Terminal while shouting “I want all the white people dead.”https://t .co/q6OK2zK8kh
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The 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the back and suffered a collapsed lung. Her 14-year-old sister was stabbed in the thigh. Both were transferred to Bellevue Hospital, where they continued to recover yesterday.
MTA police responded in less than 30 seconds, after running from positions at the train station. The suspect put down the knife and surrendered.
All charges are mere accusations and those charged are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
Hutcherson had been arrested twice in the past six months. The latest arrest was last month after he allegedly threatened someone with a knife.
He pleaded guilty to weapons possession on November 7 and July 24. In the first he received a 15-day sentence and in the second he benefited from probation and a temporary restraining order was issued against his victim.
Joe Germanotta, owner of several restaurants in Grand Central and other areas of the city and father of the singer and actress Lady Gaga, has been a constant critic of the lack of security and the massive presence of homeless people there.