CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In an exclusive interview with WCNC Charlotte, Mayor Vi Lyles said the city’s light rail system may need to move away from its open platform design in response to Friday’s stabbing.
Oscar Solarzano is charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, carrying a concealed weapon and intoxicated and disruptive in connection with the Dec. 5 attack.
Police say he was drinking alcohol on the light rail and yelling at passengers Friday night. He is accused of stabbing a man who was trying to intervene…