Overview
- Police identified Oscar Solarzano, 33, and charged him with attempted first-degree murder and related counts including assault with a deadly weapon, breaking and entering a motor vehicle, carrying a concealed weapon, and being intoxicated and disruptive.
- Officers responded around 4:50 p.m. Friday near North Brevard and East 22nd streets, quickly apprehended the suspect, interviewed him, and transferred him to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.
- The victim, named in court records as Kenyon Kareem-Shemar Dobie, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after being found with a stab wound on the LYNX Blue Line.
- Court filings and DHS/ICE statements say Solarzano is unlawfully in the U.S. and previously deported; he is jailed without bond with an ICE detainer and is due in court Monday.
- An arrest warrant says he appeared intoxicated, challenged the victim to a fight, and used a large fixed-blade knife; the incident has drawn national political reactions, including a post from President Donald Trump.