The day before two men were fatally stabbed on a Portland MAX train, defendant Jeremy Christian got into a fight with another woman, who testified Friday.

“You’re about to get it,” Jeremy Christian told the woman who had just confronted him about his diatribe aboard the MAX train .

Demetria Hester described the violent encounter with Christian on the witness stand as he watched her Friday from his seat at the defense table. He’s charged with murder in the deaths of two men.

Hester, who is African American, testified that she noticed Christian on the train on May 25, 2017, when he started yelling “that he was a Nazi, that he hated all Muslims, blacks, Jews.”

She has said she was headed home from her sous chef job at Po’shines Cafe De La Soul about 10:30 p.m. when she boarded the MAX Yellow Line on N. Denver Avenue. Three stops later, Christian stepped onto the train.

Christian yelled, “(We) shouldn’t be in his country. We’re breathing his air. We’re riding his train. He pays taxes. Free speech,” she testified. “I’m just in a state of disbelief that I’m hearing what I’m hearing.”

Hester said she decided to speak up: “(I’m) telling him to shut up. No one wants to be threatened because of their race, color, creed or religion.” She said Christian kept swigging alcohol from a plastic, 32-ounce Gatorade bottle.

Prosecutor Jeff Howes asked Hester how Christian responded. She said Christian told her: “(Expletive) you (expletive). I can say what I want to say. This is free speech. This is my train. If you don’t like it, get off.”

Then, she said, Christian told her as they stepped off the train: “(Expletive), you’re about to get it.” When Christian reached into his bag, Hester said she sprayed him with Mace. He responded by pelting her in her right eye with his Gatorade bottle.

TriMet surveillance video shows the bottle make contact with Hester’s eye. Hester said the wine inside splashed all over her and her eye bled and started to swell. She said the bottle hit her “like a baseball, a bullet.” Photos taken by police show her swollen, black eye.

Less than 19 hours later, Christian is accused of killing Ricky Best, 53, and Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, and seriously injuring Micah Fletcher, then 21, on May 26, 2017, on a Green Line train as it pulled into the Hollywood Transit Center in Northeast Portland. The stabbings followed what prosecutors and witnesses said was a racist and xenophobic tirade that appeared to be aimed at two teenage girls, one wearing a hijab.

Christian is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree attempted murder in the stabbings. He also is charged with second-degree intimidation for allegedly targeting the two teens and Hester. Intimidation is a hate crime in Oregon.

Hester said her eye was swollen, black and blue and in pain for a month after Christian’s attack.

Christian wasn’t arrested at the time. Hester said the Portland police officer who responded treated her poorly. “He asked for my ID and treated me like I was the assailant,” she said. Hester said she was sent home on a 40-seat TriMet bus.

“And even now, that still stings, right?” asked Howes, the prosecutor.

“Absolutely,” Hester said.