2 weeks ago - On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman, was killed at the East/West Boulevard station on the Lynx Blue Line, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who had fled her country because of the Russian invasion, was fatally stabbed from behind while ...

February 6, 2026 - Iryna Zarutska, 23, of Charlotte, North Carolina, passed away on Friday, 22 August 2025. Born on 22 May 2002, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Iryna was the beloved daughter of Anna Zarutska and Stanislav Zarutskyi.

September 9, 2025 - Iryna Zarutska, 23, was fatally stabbed in August while on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train.

September 11, 2025 - A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, was fatally stabbed on Aug. 22 on the light rail line in Charlotte’s South End. 34-year-old DeCarlos Brown Jr., who has a reported history of mental health issues, is charged in the killing.

September 9, 2025 - Callers indicated that a woman had been stabbed by a male. Responding officers located the victim inside the rail car. The victim, subsequently identified as Iryna Zarutska, had sustained fatal stab wounds.

September 9, 2025 - Callers indicated that a woman had been stabbed by a male. Responding officers located the victim inside the rail car. The victim, subsequently identified as Iryna Zarutska, had sustained fatal stab wounds.

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September 12, 2025 - The uncle of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian woman who was fatally stabbed while riding the Charlotte light rail late last month, spoke out after his niece's death, saying on Friday that she "didn't deserve" to be killed.

September 9, 2025 - The video, captured by a security camera in Charlotte, N.C., shows a 23-year-old woman named Iryna Zarutska sitting on a light-rail train one night in late August, dressed in the uniform of the pizza parlor where she worked.

September 9, 2025 - Zarutska was a talented artist who worked at Zepeddie’s Pizzeria and dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant. The suspect, Decarlos Brown, 34, was taken to a hospital for treatment of a laceration and charged with first-degree murder. Homeless at the time of the stabbing, Brown has a history of arrests, according to court records, and suffered from mental health problems, family members told CNN. Iryna Zarutska posted this photo to her Instagram page on June 9, 2025.

September 11, 2025 - Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, 23, was fatally stabbed on a light rail train in Charlotte, N.C.

September 10, 2025 - The Ukrainian refugee who was fatally stabbed on a light rail train in North Carolina is being remembered by the pizza shop where she worked. Iryna Zarutska, 23, was killed in the unprovoked attack shortly before 10 p.m.

1 month ago - Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, faces a federal charge of causing death on a mass transportation system in the killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, a charge that is punishable by death.

October 24, 2025 - A new butterfly species, Iryna's Azure, was named after Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian woman who was fatally stabbed while riding the Charlotte light rail on Aug.

3 weeks ago - Last August, Decarlos Brown Jr.—a mentally ill repeat offender out on bail—allegedly stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlotte light rail train.

September 9, 2025 - Washington — The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a federal criminal charge against the man accused of the deadly stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month.