Overview
- Police arrested 33-year-old Oscar Solarzano on Friday and charged him with attempted first-degree murder and additional counts after a stabbing on the Lynx Blue Line.
- The victim, identified in court records as 24-year-old Kenyon Kareem-Shemar Dobie, remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition, and officials say the attack followed an argument rather than a random assault.
- DHS officials said Solarzano is undocumented and has been removed from the United States twice, and ICE has lodged an arrest detainer to seek custody from local authorities.
- Federal records cited in reports note prior arrests for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and convictions for robbery and illegal re-entry.
- President Trump criticized Charlotte’s leadership in a social media post, as the case rekindled disputes shaped by an August light-rail killing and subsequent state measures known as Iryna’s Law.