Exclusive | ‘Brooklyn Ripper’ who stabbed 2 young kids, 1 fatally, dies in NY prison: ‘Rotting in hell now’

The fiend known as the “Brooklyn Ripper” for stabbing two young children, one fatally, in the elevator of a housing project in 2014 died in a New York prison last month, The Post has learned.

Daniel St. Hubert, 37, was serving 50 years to life at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville for the heinous crimes when he died just after 2 p.m. on Dec. 17, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said.

“This is what you call true justice. He is rotting in hell now,” Regenia Trevathan, the great-grandmother of one of Hubert’s young victims, told The Post.

The circumstances around St. Hubert’s death remain unknown.

St. Hubert was convicted in 2018 of murdering Prince Joshua Avitto, 6, and trying to kill his best friend, 7-year-old Mikalaya Capers, who miraculously survived the attack after being stabbed 16 times.

The innocent youngsters were on their way to grab some ice cream when they were knifed at random inside the Boulevard Houses in East New York.

Capers, now a 17-year-old college student, does her best to not think about St. Hubert, but the memories of that fateful June day 11 years ago still sometimes come back to haunt her.

“Sometimes I try not to remember this bad man and what he did to me and P.J.,” she told The Post.

“But every day I must look at my body and see those 16 stab wounds for the rest of my life,” the teen said.

Capers’ great-grandmother and legal guardian, Trevathan, expressed gratitude over the outpouring of support the family has received since the unthinkable tragedy.

“I thank everybody for their prayers and their continued prayers for Mykala that she continues on the path to succeed in life’s journey in spite of everything she went through,” she said.

Avitto’s mother, Aricka McClinton, said the death of her son’s cold-blooded killer has brought a sense of closure.

“I kind of feel good because now my child can rest in peace. It has been 10 years too long,” McClinton told The Post.

“Now I can feel a little closure within myself.”

McClinton also reflected on what could have been if her son was still alive today.

“I miss him every day. He would be 17 years old now. “He was a little gentleman then and normally when they start that way, they stay that way – he would still be a gentleman today.”