Charlotte police officers violated their own policies when they failed to connect DeCarlos Brown Jr. with mental health resources before he was arrested in the light rail stabbing of Iryna Zarutksa, a review by The Charlotte Observer shows.
Brown, a 35-year-old homeless and mentally ill man, faces state and federal charges in the August train killing of the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee. Eight months before he boarded a train traveling through Charlotte’s South End with a knife, he called 911 asking officers to investigate the “man-made material” he said was controlling him.
That’s the same thing he said after he was arrested in Zarutska’s death, according to a recorded jail call published by the New York Post…