WCCB has obtained the 911 calls made immediately after the light rail stabbing that killed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.
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The audio clips were released by CMPD following WCCB’s public records request.
The recordings have been edited to protect the identity of the callers and the emergency telecommunications operators.
Public officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, faced sharp criticism for failing to keep a man with a history of mental illness, arrests and erratic behavior off the streets before he fatally stabbed a young Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train, a killing that critics say could have been prevented.
Police say 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who fled the war in Ukraine only to be killed in an apparently random at