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A grand jury has indicted the man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light rail train, a case that has intensified concerns about violence on the city’s transit system.

According to Mecklenburg Superior Court records, Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. has been formally charged with first-degree murder in the death of Iryna Zarutska.

Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 22, 2025, Brown unlawfully and intentionally killed Zarutska in what investigators described as a random act of violence.

The indictment states the act was committed "with malice aforethought," a phrase used in North Carolina law to indicate the crime was carried out willfully and with intent.

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