Suspect In Fatal N.c. Train Stabbing Of Ukrainian Refugee Is Charged With Federal Crime

The fishy accused of fatally stabbing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee connected committee a Charlotte Area Transit System train past period has been charged pinch a national crime.

Decarlos Brown Jr. was charged pinch 1 count of committing an enactment causing decease connected a wide proscription system, according to nan U.S. Department of Justice.

The victim, who was identified by constabulary arsenic Iryna Zarutska, had recently travel to nan U.S. from Ukraine to flight nan warfare pinch Russia, according to her family.

"Iryna Zarutska was a young female surviving nan American dream — her horrific execution is simply a nonstop consequence of grounded soft-on-crime policies that put criminals earlier guiltless people,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said successful a statement. “I person directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repetition convulsive offender pinch a history of convulsive crime, for murder. We will activity nan maximum punishment for this unforgivable enactment of unit — he will ne'er again spot nan ray of time arsenic a free man.”

Iryna Zarutska.via GoFundMe

Brown has a agelong criminal history spanning complete a decade, including felony breaking and entering and robbery pinch a vulnerable weapon, for which he served a five-year situation sentence, according to tribunal records.