Two teenage girls on vacation from South America have been stabbed while eating at Grand Central Terminal’s dining concourse.
The girls, aged 14 and 16, were touring the city with their parents when they were suddenly attacked.
The stabbing happened at around 11:25am on Christmas Day when the family had stopped for an early lunch.
The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Steven Hutcherson of the Bronx, allegedly told the girls, ‘I want all the white people dead.’
Hutcherson is believed to have got in an argument with staff at Tartinery who told him he could not sit in the restaurant’s seating area.
Two teenage girls on vacation from South America have been stabbed while eating at Grand Central Terminal’s dining concourse (file photo)
When he complained that the two victims were being allowed to sit there he allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed them both.
Hutcherson was arrested in under a minute as MTA police swooped in from their nearby posts.
One of the girls was stabbed in the thigh while the other was stabbed in the back, nicking her lung.
Both victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Hutcherson has an extensive criminal record and has been charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
Hutcherson is believed to have got in an argument with staff at Tartinery, pictured, who told him he could not sit in the restaurant’s area (file photo)
He is known as an emotionally disturbed person with an arrest record by both the MTA police and NYPD.
In his most recent brush with the law, Hutcherson was arrested twice in the last six months for intimidating people while brandishing a gun in the Bronx.
He pleaded guilty to both his weapons possession arrests from November 7 and July 24.
For his July office he was given a 15-day jail sentence while for November he was given a conditional discharge together with a temporary restraining order against his victim.