Iryna Zarutska, 23, was an immigrant from Ukraine. She came to America to escape the war in her native land. As she sat down on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22, the man sitting directly behind her pulled out a knife and murdered her in plain view of the public and the surveillance camera. No one lifted a finger to help her. The Charlotte Light Rail released the video, which immediately went viral. The suspect was identified as Decarlos Brown, Jr., 34.

Just four minutes later, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr. allegedly whips out a folding knife and lunges forward, stabbing her three times, at least once in the neck, police said.

The chilling video then appears to show Brown then walking through the rail car, stripping off his sweatshirt and waiting by the doors — as passengers began to notice blood dripping from him.

Zarutska, who grabbed her neck as blood spilled onto the train floor, collapsed in her seat and was pronounced dead on the light rail, investigators said.

Police said Brown got off at the next stop, where a folding knife was later recovered near the platform. He was treated at a hospital for a cut on his hand before being taken into custody on a murder charge.

It took six minutes for police to respond, according to Spectrum News, which noted transit security guards were on the train, but in the car ahead of Zarutska’s when she was attacked. The New York Post

Court records show that Brown has a rap sheet as long as your arm. Fourteen arrests for everything from threats to robbery with a deadly weapon (for which he served time in prison) to theft. The latest arrest before the murder allowed him to walk free. Iryna Zarutska paid for that fiasco with her life. He has now been charged with First Degree Murder and hopefully isn’t going anywhere.

Just incredible.

Democrats are now the pro-criminals who-stab-women-in-the-neck party. https://t.co/qOmoSGSgbQ

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) September 7, 2025

One got global attention, one didn’t ???? pic.twitter.com/edkrfaoKWe

— Move On?? (@real_moveon) September 7, 2025

Judge Teresa Stokes let career criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr out of jail on a written promise he would appear in court…

DeCarlos then murdered Iryna Zarutska.

No words. pic.twitter.com/n6nFmGVbZa

— C3 (@C_3C_3) September 6, 2025

I’m outraged.

This is my state.

I want answers as to why someone arrested 14 times was let back out on the streets to murder people in cold blood.

People need to go to prison for life for this.

I want punishments for all those who enabled this violent killer.

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) September 7, 2025

How did you think this would end? pic.twitter.com/Lj8jFsZwtR

— theRoddick (@OriginalRoddick) September 7, 2025

Charlotte’s Mayor doesn’t want the media to show you the ugly truth. Why? Because she and other public officials in her city bear responsibility.

This monster had a track record longer than a CVS receipt, including prison time for robbery with a dangerous weapon, breaking and… https://t.co/86kIwPZhdN

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) September 7, 2025

The Charlotte Mayor expressed a half-hearted sympathy, but like the judge who let him free before the murder, it was typical leftist stupidity that seeks to allow criminals to come before victims. The murder of Iryna Zarutska on the Lynx Blue Line is a testament to evil leftist policies.

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