The unhinged madman who allegedly stabbed two teen tourists in a restaurant in Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day claims the FBI is out to get him — and has been planting undercover informants to spy on him for years.
During an exclusive and bizarre jailhouse tele-visit from Rikers Island, Steven Hutcherson told The Post only FBI Director Christopher Wray had the answers to questions about the horrifying Christmas attack cops say he committed.
“Anything that them girls want to know concerning anything involving me or what I allegedly did, the best person to go to is the director of the FBI. Whatever it is that they’re looking for, they got to go to Christopher Wray to get it,” said Hutcherson, 36.
Hutcherson screamed “I want all the white people dead!” before pulling out a knife in the French restaurant Tartinery and attacking two sisters visiting from Paraguay, stabbing the 16-year-old in the back and a 14-year-old sister in the leg, authorities said.
When asked about the racist statement, Hutcherson denied having any bias and said the only instance of racism was in how he’s been stalked and surveilled by law enforcement.
Hutcherson, who was wearing an orange jumpsuit and complained about not having access to commissary items like underwear and socks, doubted his alleged victims were indeed Paraguayan sisters visiting NYC with their family.
“They said it was two girls? Well, that’s what they said, allegedly.”
The girls were expected to fully recover and were reported to be back home in Paraguay shortly after the incident, according to reports.
Three days after his Christmas Day arrest, Hutcherson allegedly stabbed a fellow inmate who was sleeping in a dorm at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island.
The unprovoked attack sent Lawrence Browning to the hospital with slash wounds up to five inches long.
“That guy, he was a vigilante,” Hutcherson claimed. “That’s all I know. He was somebody who was sent by the FBI by proxy through the [Department of Corrections].”
Hutcherson is being held without bail in Rikers’ infirmary building, which houses inmates with serious medical conditions or disabilities, and is being kept away from other inmates.
Hutcherson has a history of mental health issues and at least 17 prior arrests, cops said.
Two weeks before the Grand Central knifings, he was sentenced to a conditional discharge for randomly threatening to shoot a stranger on a Bronx street in November, The Post reported last month.
Video obtained also showed him ranting from a Bronx fire escape vowing to “kill all the white women” in November.
Prior to his arrest, Hutcherson said he was seeking mental health services from the city but that “anybody that talks to me long enough knows that there’s nothing wrong with me at all.”
Hutcherson’s ex-girlfriend, Charisma Knight, 37, has said he allegedly threatened to kill her “at least five times” in the past year and became increasingly deranged after he refused to take his meds for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Hutcherson said he was forced to take medication at Bellevue Hospital, where he was taken after the alleged sneak attack in Rikers, despite his attempts to refuse it.
Since around 2018, Hutcherson, who is from Harlem and said he prefers his African birth name Esteban Obama Esono-Asue, has been unable to ride the bus or walk down the street without spies trying to trap him, he said.
“The FBI been stalking me for years over a crime that I didn’t do,” he said.
“When you’re getting stopped, when people is twisting your family’s arm, your girlfriend’s arm, everybody’s arm to isolate you and try to create a mental breakdown in your mind, eventually it works because we’re all only human,” he said. “That’s what it took in order for these things, these re-arrests to occur.”
Hutcherson is due back in court on Wednesday and faces charges including attempted murder as a hate crime, but said he’s in no rush to leave Rikers.
“God forbid I get out without this getting fully resolved, somebody can end up dead over this,” he said, referring to his ongoing belief that he is being followed by law enforcement regarding a crime he didn’t commit. “I think it’s safer here.”
