Affidavit: Man sat in front of woman for 4 minutes before randomly killing her on train

Decarlos Brown, 34, the man accused of randomly killing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Friday night in a light rail car in Charlotte’s South End has been booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail, Channel 9 learned Thursday.

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He was booked Thursday afternoon on a first-degree murder charge after he got out of the hospital.

Brown is accused of killing Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian woman who had been in the U.S. since August 2022 to escape the war with Russia…

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