The maniac who allegedly stabbed two teen tourists at Grand Central Terminal went on a deranged rant from the fire escape of his Bronx building last month — daring cops to come get him and vowing to “kill all the white women,” according to video and neighbors.
Steven Hutcherson, 36, can be seen shouting into the night outside an apartment window several stories up at the building on Mount Hope Place, as residents and police look on from below in footage of the hours-long ordeal obtained by The Post.
“I can do what I want,” Hutcherson is heard yelling at one man. “Suck my d–k.”
Locals said the tirade came after police showed up the morning of Nov. 27 as the landlord tried to evict the career criminal for not paying his rent — and Hutcherson allegedly threatened he would jump off the roof.
Instead, he apparently climbed up the fire escape from his first-floor apartment later that night, smashing several apartment windows with a brick and launching into an unhinged screed.
“He said to the police, ‘You want to die? Come closer,” neighbor Paulino Ortiz recalled Thursday. “They (police) did nothing. They just stepped back and waited for the SWAT team.”
Law enforcement sources previously told The Post that the troubling incident was one of several instances in which cops were called over reports of mental health disturbances involving Hutchinson, the most recent on Dec. 5, when he was found acting unruly outside the same Bronx building and brought to St. Barnabas Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Residents said cops were so used to responding to his deranged episodes, that when they had showed up on Nov. 27, they told him, “Oh, it’s you again.”
“That day he went crazy. He said he was going to kill all the white women, I was telling him to come down. I said it was going to be okay, just come down,” tenant Kyle Mariani said.
“The police came and about 20 of them set up one of those big air mattresses in case he jumped,” Mariani continued. “Then they soaked him with mace. He was cursing at all of them, going up and down the fire escape breaking the windows on three different floors.”
Ortiz said Hutcherson terrorized neighbors and was known as a loose canon in the building who was clearly dealing with mental health issues.
“Before that he was hanging all these pictures of white women who had been kidnapped and sex trafficked,” Ortiz said, referring to notes Hutcherson had apparently hung up on his apartment door.
“He had them up for about a month but someone took them down. Then he put them back up again.”
Hutcherson is facing attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges for allegedly randomly stabbing sisters, 14 and 16, at a French restaurant in the Grand Central dining concourse on Christmas Day.
He allegedly told a waiter at Tartinery that he wanted to sit next to white people — and then suddenly pulled a knife and stabbed the girls, tourists from Paraguay visiting the city with their family on Sunday morning.
Sources said Hutcherson has at least 17 prior arrests dating back some two decades, including on Nov. 7 when he allegedly came up to a man on a Bronx street and said, “Why are you working for white people? I’m gonna kill this man.”
He pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in that case, and was sentenced to conditional discharge by Judge Matthew Grieco on Dec. 12, despite prosecutors’ request that he get 30 days in jail, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Hutcherson has also allegedly been involved in more than a half-dozen incidents where he violated a restraining order taken out against him by an ex-girlfriend, Charisma Knight, who said he threatened to kill her several times.
Knight, 37, said Hutcherson had told her he was schizophrenic and bipolar — but refused to take his prescribed medications.
“I called the police all the time and said ‘he’s bipolar and schizophrenic, ‘he needs help, he needs help,'” she told The Post on Wednesday.
“These people actually do need help. If you’re just letting them go… he might just kill somebody.”
Additional reporting by Kyle Schnitzer