CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New body camera footage released by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police on Nov. 25, 2025, shines more light on a January 2025 encounter with the man who would later be accused of fatally stabbing Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail car months later.

The video starts on a January morning, showing flashing lights and officers stepping out of their patrol cars.

There, they found a man pacing on the sidewalk asking for help; that man is Decarlos Brown.

"Someone has exposed me to man-made material; there are voices in my head controlling me," said Brown.

CMPD said the encounter with 34-year-old Decarlos Brown unfolded on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, along Hawthorne Lane near Novant Presbyterian Hospital. Officers said they responded to a welfare call placed by Brown, who believed

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