Overview

• Officers found Iryna Zarutska with multiple stab wounds around 10 p.m. Friday at the East/West Boulevard station in Charlotte and pronounced her dead at the scene.
• Zarutska had recently arrived from Ukraine seeking safety, relatives said on a GoFundMe page that had raised nearly $15,000 for her family by Tuesday.
• Police identified Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, as the suspect; he sustained non-life-threatening injuries, has been charged with first-degree murder, and will be arrested after release from medical care.
• Investigators have not released a motive or clarified whether the attack happened on the train, on the platform, or nearby, and the probe remains active.
• Court records and local reporting detail Brown’s prior arrests dating to 2011, a January misuse-of-911 case, and defense filings that led to a court-ordered competency evaluation.