VIDEO WARNING: Surveillance footage shows moments leading up to fatal light rail stabbing

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The Charlotte Area Transit System, CATS, has released video of the deadly stabbing two weeks ago on the light rail.

Because the video is so disturbing and violent, Queen City News is not showing it in its entirety, but still parts of it so viewers can understand how random the attack was.

The video shows the suspect, DeCarlos Brown, already on the light rail when the victim, Iryna Zarutska, gets on and sits across the aisle from him on Friday, Aug. 22, right around 10 p.m.

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Brown sits for about four and a half minutes and seems to be fidgety off and on during that time. He doesn’t seem to look in Zarutska’s direction at all, and doesn’t even seem to notice she’s there until suddenly out of nowhere, he pulls out a knife…

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