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The fatal light rail stabbing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska has left Charlotte communities stunned and put leaders under scrutiny. It’s also prompted false claims from politicians that reverberated through social media.
DeCarlos Brown Jr., a 34-year-old homeless man, was charged in Zarutska’s murder, and video of the stabbing lifted the local Charlotte story into the national spotlight. Some politicians — local, state and national — have at least in part blamed Zarutska’s death on the court system, judges and district attorneys who had encountered Brown in the last 10 years…