Federal charges added against suspect in second Charlotte light rail stabbing

The Honduran man accused in Charlotte’s latest light rail attack faces a rare federal charge that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Federal prosecutors on Thursday filed a complaint accusing 33-year-old Oscar Gerado Solorzano-Garcia of illegally reentering the country after being deported and committing a “terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system.”

He had already been banned from Charlotte’s public transit system when he was arrested on Dec. 5 and charged with stabbing another passenger in the chest with a 12-inch knife while drinking a wine cooler on the LYNX Blue Line…

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