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FILE - A Charlotte Area Transit System light rail departs a station, Sept. 8, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco, File)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Police in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train, just a few months after a Ukrainian refugee riding one of the city's trains was killed in an unrelated knife attack.

Oscar Solarzano, 33, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon and other crimes stemming from the Friday afternoon attack in which he wielded a large knife, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a news release.

Police said the victim suffered a stab wound and was hospitalized in criti

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