Overview

• Charlotte Area Transit System says it did not authorize the light rail filming and that security escorted the crew off the train after a rider report.
• The video opens with surveillance and news footage, then reenacts the moments on the train with a changed outcome and ends by directing viewers to Iryna Zarutska’s GoFundMe.
• Local reporting identifies the actors as Natalie Jones and KenDarius “Too” Hargrove, and officials say the shoot took place Monday night on the Blue Line.
• WCNC says its broadcast footage was used in the clip without permission, adding to questions over consent and portrayal of a recent homicide.
• Suspect Decarlos Brown Jr. remains in custody and has been ordered to a mental-health competency evaluation; no trial has occurred.