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CHARLOTTE – She fled the war in Ukraine hoping to build a new life in the United States. Instead, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack while riding a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train home from work.

For her neighbors, the tragedy is made all the more painful each time they walk into their homes and see the flowers she painted — bright strokes of pinks and greens, signed with her delicate hand.

Neighbors in Huntersville, a suburb of Charlotte where Zarutska once lived with her family, told Fox News Digital that they first met the Ukrainian refugee through a local Facebook group, where she posted that she was looking for opportunities to paint, offering to add flowers or murals

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