CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Decarlos Brown, the man accused of killing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Friday night in a light rail car in South End, has been booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail.
He was booked Thursday afternoon on a first-degree murder charge after he got out of the hospital. He is being held without bond.
Brown is accused of killing Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old woman who left Ukraine for the Charlotte area three years ago to escape her country’s war with Russia.
Woman killed in South End stabbing, suspect injured: CMPDThe Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department was dispatched to the East/West Station on Camden Road shortly before 10 p.m. Friday.
They found Zarutska in the back of one of the Lynx Blue Line cars. She had been stabbed in the throat, according to the court affidavit. She was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m.
Immigrant community mourns Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death in CharlotteWitnesses described the suspect, who matched Brown's description. Officers located Brown still on the train platform.
Police also discovered a folding knife on the platform.
Charlotte city leaders look for transit safety solutions after stabbing death near light railDetectives reviewed video from inside the train, which showed that Brown sat in the seats directly in front of Zarutska.
The train reportedly traveled for approximately four and a half minutes before Brown "pulls a knife from his pocket, unfolds the knife, pauses, then stands up, and strikes at the victim three times."
There was no other interaction between Brown and Zarutska, police said.
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