The career criminal accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail system was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges that could land him the death penalty.

Accused killer Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system resulting in death, according to the indictment handed up in the Western District of North Carolina.

The federal charges make Brown – who, according to the indictment, acted with “reckless disregard for human life” – eligible for the death penalty.

The charges make him eligible for the death penalty.

Brown was allegedly caught in a harrowing video surveillance stabbing Zarutska, 23, to death on the evening of Aug. 22 on the Lynx Blue Line light rail in Cha

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