President Donald Trump has pledged a ‘vicious’ response to the murder of refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina last month. Ms Zarutska fled the war in Ukraine along with her mother and siblings in 2022. In a video posted to Truth Social, Trump raised a photo depicting the moment of the attack, as well as pictures of both Zarutska and suspected perpetrator Decarlos Brown Jr. 34-year-old Brown Jr. has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder - a federal crime that could make him eligible for the death penalty.

Newly-released footage showed the moment Iryna Zarutska, 23, was brutally stabbed by Decarlos Brown, 35, as she sat unsuspectingly in her seat on the train last month

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was sitting quietly on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina on August 22 when she was stabbed three times in the neck and killed by a man sitting behind her.