The accused Brooklyn Ripper, charged with butchering two young children in an elevator, is now terrifying even hardened staffers on the Bellevue psych ward.
Daniel St. Hubert has been threatening to beat up cops and hospital workers since being taken in for evaluation last week, sources told The Post on Sunday.
“Any hospital staff that have to deal with him are very nervous around him,” said a Bellevue source. “They are on high alert.
“He is extremely hostile and accepts no responsibility for anything,” the source said, adding that his colleagues describe the alleged killer as a “menacing brute” with “a bad look in his eyes.”
A law enforcement source said of St. Hubert: “He’s eating a lot of meatballs and spaghetti and chicken cutlets — and threatening to kick officers’ asses.”
St. Hubert — arrested in the June 1 rampage that killed Prince Joshua “P.J.” Avitto, 6, and badly wounded Mikayla Capers, 7, days after being paroled for trying to kill his own mother — has shown no remorse, the sources said.
The hospital worker said that when St. Hubert isn’t lashing out at the staff, he’s lounging around the ward, eating and sleeping “like he doesn’t have a care in the world.”
“All he wants to do is sleep, like it will all go away if he isn’t awake for it,” the source said. “He is like a big baby in a man’s body.”
St. Hubert will likely remain at Bellevue for some time because correction officials are nervous about moving him to Rikers Island, where there are already multiple threats against him, sources said.
P.J., who was laid to rest Friday, and Mikayla, who continues a long road to recovery at New York Presbyterian Hospital, were on their way to get ices when St. Hubert entered the elevator with them and allegedly hacked them with a knife for refusing to quiet down.
The news of St. Hubert’s gluttony and carefree attitude at Bellevue enraged Capers’ family, who said an accused inmate should not be running the asylum.
“A little boy lost his life, and my sister was almost killed by this guy, and [St. Hubert’s] living cozy right now,” seethed Mikayla’s brother, Lequan, 22. “I don’t know how that happens. I would like to see a lot of things happen to him, but realistically, I would just like to see him spend the rest of his life behind bars.”
Capers said Mikayla is on the mend and undergoing physical therapy.
“She’s getting back to being a normal 7-year-old kid,” Lequan said.