The man who allegedly stabbed two teenage girls at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Christmas Day now faces hate crime charges since he supposedly shouted racist invectives against white people during the attack.

Just before 11:30 a.m. on Christmas Day, two teen girls from Paraguay were enjoying lunch with their parents at Tartinery, a busy café in the Grand Central Dining Concourse. While the family sat at their table, Esteban Esono-Asue, a 36-year-old career criminal who goes by the name Steven Hutcherson and who reportedly lives at the station, began causing a disturbance by attempting to sit down at the restaurant without placing an order, KTVO reported.

His behavior was apparently so erratic that Tartinery staff members denied him a table. He then reportedly became enraged, pointing at the teen girls, ages 14 and 16, and noting that they were allowed to stay.

“I want all the white people dead,” the suspect, who is black, then yelled. “I want to sit next to the cr*ckers.”