CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — It's been one month since Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on the Blue Line train in South End.

To remember her, hundreds of people gathered for a candlelight vigil.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers blocked off a stretch of Camden Road not far from the light rail station where her murder happened to allow people to honor Zarutska's life. The clear message of the vigil was that this young Ukrainian woman didn't die in vain.

"I feel like this could've been any of us," said Michael Bermudez, who attended the vigil. "I feel like this could've been my family. This could've been me. This could've been my friends."

It's an issue that's personal and has captured the hearts and minds of people in Charlotte and across the country.

"If there's not just

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