{"id":76877,"date":"2025-07-20T02:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76877\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:13:27","slug":"man-who-stabbed-teen-tourists-at-iconic-nyc-train-station-gets-26-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76877\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who stabbed teen tourists at iconic NYC train station gets 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 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\u2019s 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,\u201d Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cNew 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\u2019t 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 (AP) \u2014 A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists from Paraguay at Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[49764,5229,4219,10407,168,53136,57,4228,1612,5249,53138,405,403,404,5226,5225,5228,406,5227,53137,2068,10409,4217,3981,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-76877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alvin-bragg","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-criminal-punishment","12":"tag-domestic-news","13":"tag-esteban-esono-asue","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-indictments","16":"tag-latin-america","17":"tag-manhattan","18":"tag-michael-fineman","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-new-york-city-wire","22":"tag-newyork","23":"tag-newyorkcity","24":"tag-ny","25":"tag-ny-state-wire","26":"tag-nyc","27":"tag-paraguay","28":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","29":"tag-sexual-assault","30":"tag-south-america","31":"tag-teens","32":"tag-u-s-news","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-united-states-of-america","35":"tag-unitedstates","36":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","37":"tag-us","38":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114883146825936903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76877","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=76877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}