A few days after he was charged with stabbing a young woman to death on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, Decarlos Brown Jr. called his sister from jail. Finally, he told her, authorities would have no choice but to deal with a foreign material in his body that had caused him to attack a stranger.

“I don’t even know the lady,” he explained. “I never said not one word to the lady at all. That’s scary, ain’t it? So, like, why would somebody just stab somebody for no reason?”

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