'I Want All The White People Dead': Two Teen Girls 'Stabbed in Anti-White Hate Crime' in NYC

A man is now facing attempted murder as a hate crime after two teen girls, both visiting from South America, were stabbed Christmas morning while eating in Grand Central Terminal.

The victims, two sisters ages 14 and 16, were attacked as they ate with their parents at Tartinery in the Grand Central Dining Concourse just before 11:30 a.m. on Monday.

Police say the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Steven Hutcherson, flew into a rage when Tartinery staff told him he couldn't sit near the girls. According to police, he pulled out a knife and stabbed each of them, shouting, "I want all the white people dead."

The 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the back and suffered a collapsed lung. The 14-year-old was stabbed in the thigh. They were both taken to Bellevue Hospital where they are still recovering.

[...] [Hutcherson] has been charged with felony counts of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first and second degree, and attempted assault in the first degree -- all as hate crimes. He was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

[...] The suspect is known to both MTA police and NYPD as an emotionally disturbed person with 17 prior arrests.

Hutcherson was arrested twice in the last six months. The latest arrest came just last month after Hutcherson threatened someone with a knife.

"It's not really a thing that I was worried about," said a tourist from Switzerland.

"It doesn't faze me because, I guess, it's New York," said Connecticut resident Lori Agati. "This kind of thing happens, you know? It's unfortunate."