A judge ordered that Decarlos Brown Jr. receive treatment for four months to restore his competency.

A federal judge has ruled that the man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train cannot currently stand trial due to mental illness.

Proceedings in the federal case against Decarlos Brown Jr. — accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train last year — will be…

This is the second time Decarlos Brown Jr. has been ruled mentally unfit to proceed in his federal and state criminal cases.

A judge ordered that Decarlos Brown Jr. receive treatment for four months to restore his competency.

A federal judge has ruled that the man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train cannot currently stand trial due to mental illness

Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed to death on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last summer

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Brown will be committed to a federal facility for treatment with resumption of his trial contingent on his being declared competent.

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