CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A woman who witnessed the brutal light rail stabbing is speaking out. The woman paints the picture of the chaos she saw back on August 22nd.

“When I got towards the doorway, there was blood everywhere,” witness Tacara Howard said.

Howard was on the light rail train in a different car the night video shows DeCarlos Brown stabbing Iryna Zarutska to death. The video shows no one tried to stop Brown or immediately helped Zarutska as she laid in a puddle of blood.

“That’s really the scariest part to me that someone didn’t help sooner and the amount of people who were on the train,” Howard said.

After seeing the aftermath of the deadly attack, Howard says she still doesn’t feel safe on the Blue Line, but says her transportation options are limited.

“It’s scary knowing that

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