Overview

• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police published multiple 911 recordings from Aug. 22 in which panicked riders described heavy bleeding and an unresponsive victim after an apparently unprovoked stabbing.
• Callers relayed descriptions of a man on the opposite platform with dreadlocks and a wrapped hand, helping officers locate 34-year-old suspect Decarlos Brown Jr.
• Surveillance video previously released by the transit agency shows a man in a hoodie pulling a pocket knife and stabbing Zarutska three times, including in the neck, before walking away.
• Brown remains jailed after a Mecklenburg County grand jury indictment on first-degree murder and a separate federal charge of causing death on a mass-transportation system that could carry capital punishment.
• Authorities and officials have faced scrutiny over transit security and prior release decisions as reports detail Brown’s lengthy arrest history and court-ordered competency evaluation proceeds.