Ex-girlfriend of accused Grand Central stabber says he threatened to kill her at least five times and she warned police he was dangerous before he attacked two South American teens visiting on vacation

The ex-girlfriend of the man accused of stabbing two teenage girls on vacation from South America at Grand Central Terminal said he was a stalker who belonged in jail.

Steven Hutcherson, 36, reportedly got into an argument with Tartinery staff, who told him he couldn't sit in the restaurant's seating area.

That argument led to the attack on the innocent girls, ages 16 and 14, who were visiting from Paraguay.

Charisma Knight, 37, who dated Hutcherson for three months in 2021 and then again for nine months until October 2022, told the New York Post that he had threatened to kill her “at least five times” in the past year.

She also alleged that the suspect became increasingly disturbed after he continued to refuse to take his medications for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder during their relationship.

Knight explained that she had repeatedly contacted authorities to warn them of his condition and the damage he could cause.

“I kept calling the police and saying, 'He's bipolar and schizophrenic, he needs help, he needs help.' These people indeed need help. If you just let them go… he might kill someone.

'He should have been in a psychiatric facility where he can't come out and where they can check whether he's taking his medication.

'Sometimes I feel like he wants to die. He says and does these things to people because he wants them to respond so he doesn't have to kill himself.

“If he had gotten the proper help he needed, and had either stayed in jail and gotten psychiatric help, or been in a mental institution and gotten help, this never would have happened. The girls would never have been stabbed,” she told the Post.

Knight also claims that Hutcherson was heavily involved in conspiracy theories, watched videos on YouTube about Malcolm X, wars and learned “how to train to fight with a knife.”

“He swore the government was after him. I knew this was going to happen because when you look at his Facebook account with all the rants he goes on against police, it's insane,” Knight added, referring to the attack on Grand Central.

“Some days when he went to work, I would stay at his house and just stay in his house until he got home. He comes back and says, “There's something funny about this seasoning,” or “There's something funny about the creamer. I think the FBI came in and put something in my coffee,” she continued.

“I told him it wasn't true because I was in the house all day.”

The distressed woman said Hutcherson believed the mold growing in his bathroom had been planted by police and that a close friend suspected it of being an FBI informant.

Knight speculated that the reason the stabbing accused attacked the teens was because he was “estranged from his mother and never recovered from her death some twenty years ago.”

“He gets depressed around the holidays. Around October he starts thinking about his mother and thinking about the fact that he has no one. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas he is weird – extremely weird.

“Because it was Christmas, it triggered something in him, or he was angry because it was a family atmosphere that they had and they were enjoying themselves,” she theorized.

Knight's revelations come after it emerged that Hutcherson had 17 previous arrests and had just been released from prison two weeks before he said: “I want all white people dead” during his attack.

Yussif Abdullahi, 46, said he was the victim of an attack on November 7 in the Bronx after seeing Hutcherson – who is homeless and plagued by mental health issues – harassing a woman before pulling a gun on him and similar anti -discriminatory measures. white threats.

'Why do you work for white people? I'm going to kill this man! I'm going to shoot you. I don't care what kind of green card the government gave you,” Hutcherson said, according to police.

Abdullahi – who was working out of a truck depot at the time – thought Hutcherson may have been “getting high and crazy,” according to the New York Post.

“I thought maybe he just said it and didn't mean it,” he said.

Then Hutcherson told Abdullahi, “Open your mouth and say something. I'll shoot you now.'

Hutcherson then walked away, but less than half an hour later he punched another man, police said.

He was eventually arrested while in possession of a knife at a gas station and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, menacing, intimidation and assault. They found no weapon on him.

Hutcherson pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge but was granted a conditional discharge by Judge Matthew V. Grieco on December 12.

Abdullahi said this was the most dangerous thing he had ever faced since immigrating to the United States from Ghana in 2008.

'They shouldn't have let him go [of jail]. I don't believe it,” he said after learning of Hutcherson's stabbing.

The girls, aged 14 and 16, were touring the city with their parents when they were suddenly attacked.

The stabbing happened around 11.25am on Christmas, when the family had stopped for an early lunch.

The suspect, identified as Hutcherson, a Bronx resident, allegedly told the girls, “I want all white people dead.”

When Hutcherson complained that the two victims were allowed to sit in the restaurant, he allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed them both.

Hutcherson was arrested within a minute when MTA police rushed in from their nearby posts.

One of the girls was stabbed in the thigh, while the other was stabbed in the back, damaging her lung.

Both victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital.

Hutcherson has been charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.