Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors have charged a 34-year-old homeless man with murder for allegedly killing a Ukrainian refugee on public transit in Charlotte, N.C., last month.
Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. was charged Tuesday with one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system and faces a statutory maximum sentence of life in prison or death, if convicted.
Prosecutors allege that Brown stabbed Iryna Zarutska, 23, to death on a Charlotte light-rail train the night of Aug. 22.
Officers arrested Brown at about 9:55 p.m. local time that night after being called to the scene by a witness reporting a woman was being stabbed by a Black man on the Lynx Blue Line.
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