NYC stabbing suspect baffles neighbors who recall hospital greeter as ‘loving young man’ without history of trouble

The unassuming New York City hospital greeter charged Thursday with a string of random stabbings had no rap sheet or history of mental illness — leaving neighbors and cops trying to figure out what could have caused him to snap.

Jermain Rigueur, 27, a former Long Island resident who worked at Woodhull Hospital in Bedford–Stuyvesant, allegedly attacked a 61-year-old grandfather with a hunting knife on Jan. 8 — and then went after at least four more victims Tuesday and Wednesday before he was nabbed by cops.

“I can’t believe that. I wouldn’t think he would be capable of that,” said retired NYPD cop Cherise Broadus, who lives next-door to the raised ranch home in Wyandanch where Rigueur grew up.

“Jermain was always a very loving young man,” Broadus, 62, told The Post, saying she has known the suspect since he was a boy and watched him grow up.

“He was always very loving to me. When I lost my mother, he came up to me and gave me a big hug,” she continued.

“I never thought anything like that of him. I trusted him. He would watch my granddaughter.”