Iryna Zarutska, Charlotte and death penalty
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The victim of a deadly stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail train is being recognized with a new butterfly named in her honor.
Disturbing surveillance footage shows alleged slasher Decarlos Brown casually roaming the Charlotte platform as panicked straphangers scream for help.
Brown, 34, has been charged with murder after Zarutska, a Ukrainian woman, was stabbed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 22.
Newly surfaced surveillance footage taken just moments after Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed aboard a train in North Carolina shows her alleged killer walking away from the crime scene before being arrested.
Charlotte police release audio of 911 calls as witnesses plead for help after Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death on a light rail train.
The vigil drew several hundred people who gathered at the East/West Boulevard station, the closest to where she was attacked Aug. 22.
In a new video, Charlotte-born rapper DaBaby reenacts the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska on a train, becoming one of the most high-profile Black cultural figures to weigh in on the killing.
Gov. Josh Stein signed legislation Friday requiring stricter bail evaluations following the train stabbing death of Iryna Zarutska by repeat offender.
Local Republicans called for change in the ongoing 2025 elections, while a national group targeted U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Cooper.