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Iryna Zarutska’s family is suing the city of Charlotte, but there’s an even bigger question: Why was Decarlos Brown Jr. free to be on that train in the first place?
Brown had 14 prior arrests and had served more than five years in prison for armed robbery.
Then in January 2025, police encountered him outside a hospital while he was reporting bizarre delusions about something controlling his body.
He was arrested for misusing 911 and released that same day on a written promise to appear.
By July, his own public defender was asking the court for a mental competency evaluation. A judge ordered one on July 28. Less than a month later, prosecutors say Brown randomly stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlotte light-rail train.
Yes, security transit failed, but this was bigger than transit. The criminal justice and mental-health systems encountered this man again and again and still failed to keep him off the streets or get him sustained treatment before an innocent woman was killed.
Iryna’s family deserves answers from ALL of them.
@police_frequency
