{"id":74333,"date":"2025-07-19T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74333\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:16:10","slug":"man-who-stabbed-teenage-tourists-at-iconic-nyc-train-station-gets-26-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74333\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who stabbed teenage tourists at iconic NYC train station gets 26 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists<\/a> from Paraguay at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day 2023 was sentenced Friday to more than 26 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Esteban Esono-Asue, 38, also known as Steven Hutcherson, appeared for sentencing in state court in Manhattan, where a jury convicted him of assault and other charges in June. A judge ordered him to serve 26 to 29 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Esono-Asue was sitting at a cafe table in Grand Central shortly before 11:30 a.m. when he picked up a fork and scratched a woman’s neck. He then took out a knife and stabbed a 16-year-old girl in the back and a 14-year-old girl in the leg, authorities said. He dropped the knife and surrendered to police.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old girl suffered lung and diaphragm injuries. All the victims survived.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy thoughts remain with the victims and their loved ones, who continue to navigate the psychological and emotional effects from this horrific attack,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/a> said in a statement. “New Yorkers, commuters and tourists rely on the transit system daily and deserve to be safe when they travel, and we will hold those accountable who commit acts … of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lawyer for Esono-Asue, Michael Fineman, did not immediately return phone and email messages Friday. The motive for the attack wasn’t clear. Witnesses said Esono-Asue made derogatory comments about white people shortly before the assaults, according to the criminal complaint. He had initially been charged with attempted murder and assault as hate crimes.<\/p>\n

Earlier in December 2023, Esono-Asue pleaded guilty to an assault charge and was given a conditional discharge after being arrested for threatening a man the month before, according to court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists from Paraguay at Grand Central…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[51801,5229,347,4219,10407,57,4228,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,2068,10409,3981,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-74333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-51801","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-criminal-punishment","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-indictments","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","22":"tag-sexual-assault","23":"tag-teens","24":"tag-u-s-news","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114877732361743764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}