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Richard Kosich: When compassion means intervention — rethinking how we treat the severely mentally ill Richard Kosich October 23, 2025 October 22, 2025

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“I don’t even know the lady…why would somebody stab somebody for no reason?”

That’s what a homeless ex-con can be heard asking his sister during an August 28 jailhouse phone conversation they had while he was incarcerated. That career criminal is murder suspect Decarlos Brown Jr., who allegedly fatally stabbed 23-year old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in what police said was a random attack on a North Carolina light rail train last August 22.

Brown’s family says he was a previously diagnosed schizophrenic who suffered from hallucinations and

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