The U.S Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Russ Ferguson, and James C. Barnacle, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division hold a press conference to outline federal charges against Decarlos Dejuan Brown, Jr. in the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska.
Both Agent James Barnacle and U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson were emotional at times as they delivered their statements to the media and announced the federal charges. WATCH:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A federal criminal complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte today, charging a Charlotte man with a federal crime in connection with the fatal attack of Iryna Zarutska on the city’s light rail system, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Decarlos Dejuan Brown, Jr., 34, is charged with one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.
James C. Barnacle, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division, joins U.S. Attorney Ferguson in making today’s announcement.
“Iryna Zarutska was a young woman living the American dream — her horrific murder is a direct result of failed soft-on-crime policies that put criminals before innocent people,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “I have directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repeat violent offender with a history of violent crime, for murder. We will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable act of violence — he will never again see the light of day as a free man.”
“The brutal attack on Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte Light Rail was a disgraceful act that should never happen in America,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “The FBI jumped to assist in this investigation immediately to ensure justice is served and the perpetrator is never released from jail to kill again. I want to thank Attorney General Bondi for her pursuit of today’s federal charges, which are the first step toward delivering justice for Iryna and her family – as well as the millions of Americans who deserve to live in our great American cities free from being targeted by violent criminals.”
“This brutal attack on an innocent woman simply trying to get to her destination is an attack on the American way of life,” said U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson. “Of course, crimes like this affect the victim the most—Iryna deserves justice, and we will bring justice to her and her family. But crimes like this also affect everyone who relies on mass transportation to get to and from work and go about their daily lives, and federal charges are necessary to protect the public and ensure confidence in our transportation systems.”
“Iryna Zarutska had likely taken that train ride many times before. She was probably tired after a day at work and just wanted to go home, but tragically she never made it. We hope this federal charge will help bring her family a measure of justice and the courts will hold the subject charged in this horrific act accountable. Everyone in this country deserves to go work, to school, or just across town without fear of being attacked,” said James C. Barnacle Jr., the FBI Charlotte Special Agent in Charge.
According to allegations in the affidavit filed with the criminal complaint:
On August 22, 2025, at approximately 9:55 p.m., officers with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) responded to a call for service related to an assault that occurred on the Lynx Blue Line light rail in Charlotte. Callers indicated that a woman had been stabbed by a male. Responding officers located the victim inside the rail car. The victim, subsequently identified as Iryna Zarutska, had sustained fatal stab wounds. A pocketknife and other items were collected from the scene.
Investigators reviewed surveillance footage that showed the victim entering the light rail car and sitting down in the row in front of Brown. Approximately four minutes later, Brown pulled a knife from his pocket and unfolded it before striking the victim three times from behind. Following the attack, Brown walked away from the victim. Responding officers located Brown on the light rail platform and he was arrested.
If convicted, Brown faces a maximum statutory sentence of life in prison or death. Ultimately, his sentence will be determined by the Court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors. (SOURCE)
Perhaps the judge who let this miscreant loose should go to prison?
Royce White knows the problem
and solutions:
-we need to restore our sacred honor,
-we need to remember people that faced difficulties, and still did the right things – for others – and honor the good through our actions
-how about an effective deterrent to doing wrongness? if black (color really is not reason) people hate themselves, each other, and others so much, how about a death penalty when there is black on black (or red on red, or brown on brown, or white on white or green on green) murders too
(i.e.
–stop (policies of) pulling the race card, or legalese, out of the deck of the game of life cards, to get perpetual criminal immunity,
–Awaken. stop (woke, mind numbness) of having others that see the race (or gender, or religion ) card behaving like they are exposed to mind and body numbing kryptonite (superman was weak around kryptonite)
https://rumble.com/v6yqtvw-royce-white-after-george-floyd-there-was-supposed-to-be-accountability.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
I’ve met and spoken with Royce. He is a smart common sense grass roots candidate and has some serious RINO competition for the MN senate seat up for grabs. Unfortunately MNGOP and all the establishment RINO’s are against him. The grass roots conservatives in MN are vastly outnumbered by all the old school republicans including the locally infamous Tom Emmer who wields his position in congress to manipulate the endorsement process in MN.
Minneapolis will not likely change but throughout the state people are waking up to the miserable leadership of MN democrats with lying fraud supporting Tim Walz causing the state to crumble.
Yeap, I love Royce White, and know that dirty Emmer and his ilk did and will continue to do all they can to keep Royce out of their cliche.
Ugh the beginning was disgusting but oh so predictable. I agree that I don’t want to hear from any rich folk their character assassination of those of us who have to try to just stay alive in these communities. It’s NOT journalism and many of us are sick of their lies and we only watch occasionally to see what their current schtick is for self protection – thats ALL. They need to be stripped of all their resources and have to live with what we’ve been having to live with – not for a week – not for a month – at least a year! NO CHEATING!
If posted previously mea culpa.
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Until the judge who turned this animal loose is charged as an accessory to her murder, I don’t really want to hear about it.
DO BETTER.
Come back and talk to us again once federal law requires that a judge who releases a violent criminal is charged as an accessory to their next crime, when prosecutors who refuse to charge, are charged as accessories, and when all the innocent blood these mindless savages have spilled is repaid.
100%!
By that measure the one who seeks out and funds the campaigns of America-hating rogue lawyers who are hell-bent on destroying the good and elevating the most evil among us must also be held accountable.
Black Lives Matter should change their name to what they truly stand for:
White Lives Don’t Matter
This is a terrorist group whose intention is to divide. IMO
They certainly don’t represent the majority of black people either.
With massive corporate and government support.
I don’t believe that Decarlos Brown is schizophrenic. I think that anyone can feign that diagnosis if they choose. I think that the mental health community needs to clean themselves up. One of the things I learned in college and ever since is how many criminals get into the sike professions. In college there was a sike student who was performing experiments on other students with a racial component and the situation was so bad that the FBI was brought in to investigate. The perpetrator was somehow cleared and hired by a big name corporation with a strong government connection. Many students were disgusted. This truth about people in this “profession” has been demonstrated to me all my life. I refuse to socialize with these people. My husband always noticed how they couldn’t stay in a relationship. The fact that this profession has the authority that they have been given by our government is very problematic because too many of them are corrupt.
DeCarlos Brown’s sister is supporting her brother by doubling down on the schizophrenia diagnosis.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/us-news/decarlos-brown-jr-stabbed-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutska-because-he-believed-she-was-reading-his-mind-sister/
He is not homeless and he has lots of support. Those braids aren’t cheap!
Meanwhile fortunately for internet another truth is emerging:
https://x.com/AFpost/status/1965695938112127418
In high school back in the 90’s I was friends with a girl at school. She wanted to date but I always turned her down because she seemed a little stalker to me. I saw some scars on her shoulder one time and asked her what that was from. And she told me she cut herself sometimes to relieve stress. Cutting wasn’t a well known thing back then, but I deduced it wasn’t good.
Fast forward to college, and she got a psych degree and masters from Univ. of Maryland. SHOCKER. It was when I learned of her major I realized, she’s crazy and has been trying to figure out what is wrong WITH HER, and not others.
And of course, she married one of the authors of OBAMA CARE, and she now teaches SOCIAL JUSTICE and University of Maryland!!!
After I read you I realized that the FBI called to my university to investigate probably decided to utilize the perps skills and helped him into the job he got!
The entire medical system is replete with walking wounded – there is no healing for sale there, and precious few True Healers on staff.
Damaged people go into the Rockefeller system as professionals desperate for inner healing…
and everybody – the vast majority that is, *both inside it & outside of it* – gets worse not better.
To escape notice, he changed out his hoodie after the crime. Consciousness of guilt. Death penalty!!
As an alternative to
I Can’t Breathe
Don’t Stab Me
If our politicians, judges, mayors, governers, etc were held accountable for their foolish decisions and acts in reference to crime, some of the tragedy could be avoided. Unfortunately, too many of our fellow citizens have clinkers in their thinkers…
Many come from privileged backgrounds and have never had to live with the policies they are brainwashed to promote or have been fortunate enough to have never been in the wrong place at the wrong time but I am really fatigued by their ignorance or pretend ignorance because they are so terrified to lose more people to reality.
This guy needs to meet his maker pronto. That is GOD’s law. These things would cease to happen if we obeyed GOD.