Federal authorities have officially stepped in after the savage murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed to death last month while riding a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and FBI announced that the suspect, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., now faces a federal charge for committing a violent crime resulting in death on a mass transportation system. This charge comes on top of the first-degree murder charge already filed in state court for the brutal killing caught on surveillance cameras.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi minced no words in condemning the crime and the system that allowed it to happen.
“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,” Bondi said Tuesday.
