In a devastating unprovoked assault on August 22, 2025, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed aboard a Charlotte Area Transit System light rail train in North Carolina's South End neighborhood. Surveillance footage revealed the horror as 34-year-old homeless suspect Decarlos Brown Jr., seated behind her, suddenly drew a pocketknife and struck her three times, including a lethal wound to the neck, after the train had traveled for about four minutes with no prior interaction.

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