The repeat offender who slaughtered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has gotten yet another free pass in Democrat-run Charlotte as the federal case looms.
DeCarlos Brown Jr. has been found “incapable to proceed” on the state murder charge brought against him in the killing of Iryna, according to court filings reported today by the News & Observer.
The ruling, revealed in a motion filed by his state public defender in Mecklenburg Superior Court, means Brown cannot appear in state court for now.
DeCarlos Brown Jr. has been found “incapable to proceed” on the state murder charge brought against him in the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutskahttps://t.co/LrdJRPu6CQ pic.twitter.com/LiKi6KQOEO
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His attorney, Daniel Roberts, requested a six-month pause on the Rule 24 hearing — where prosecutors would decide whether to seek the death penalty — and Mecklenburg District Attorney Spencer Merriweather’s office signed off on the delay.
Brown remains in federal custody on separate federal murder charges that could still carry the death penalty.
Brown, a 35-year-old homeless and mentally ill man with a lengthy rap sheet, was caught on video repeatedly stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska from behind on a Charlotte light rail train in August 2025.
He was heard to say “I got that white girl,” after committing the horrific attack.
Brown — a career criminal with at least 14 prior arrests in North Carolina alone for everything from assault to firearms violations and robbery — was free on cashless bail despite his violent history. Democrat-led “reforms” in Charlotte and across North Carolina turned the justice system into a revolving door for predators.
At the time, President Trump’s vowed to be “vicious” in going after depraved criminals Democrats allow to roam free.
The leftist media insinuated that federal charges were grandstanding:
These repeat offenders keep being enabled in blue cities:
Brown’s case is textbook: mental health evaluations, endless delays, and excuses that let killers avoid accountability while victims’ families wait.
There is an overriding pathological race ideology that downplays these attacks when the victim is white and the perpetrator fits the wrong narrative.
Meanwhile, in Providence, Rhode Island, officials are still wrestling with public tributes to Iryna. The mayor there called a proposed mural “divisive and ugly” as a new one was being prepared — as earlier murals honoring her memory were defaced. Progressive discomfort with acknowledging the reality of this crime continues to surface in cities far from Charlotte.
Brown’s federal case remains active, with a second psychiatric exam already ordered. President Trump has publicly called for the death penalty in this case. Yet North Carolina has operated under a de-facto execution moratorium for 20 years, and the state proceedings are now frozen for at least six more months.
This is what soft-on-crime policies deliver. A system that treats brutal murderers as too fragile to face trial while law-abiding citizens and refugees alike pay the price.
Iryna Zarutska fled war in Ukraine only to be butchered on American soil by a repeat offender the local system refused to lock up.
Americans are demanding real justice, not perpetual delays and taxpayer-funded coddling of killers.
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