BREAKING: Decarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death while she was riding a train in Charlotte, NC, is now facing federal charges.

Brown is charged with one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.… pic.twitter.com/nEFTyO8UkC

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 9, 2025

On Monday Axios reported that the MAGA GOP establishment were fapping about the murder of 23 year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska at the knife of a Black ex-convict whose mom attempted repeatedly to have him locked up in a psychiatric ward. “This is exactly what he’s talking about, and it’s going to be an issue he’s going to highlight. This is not just about North Carolina. Other campaigns will deal with this,” said a “Trump adviser,” salivating over the imagery.

Yet the above is what you’re going to hear from the MAGA Reich, even as the asshole’s own mom said – two weeks ago – that he should never have been out on the streets. They found some pretext to charge him federally because it was on a transportation system – 17 days after it happened and 12 days after he was hit with state-level first degree murder charges – now that the video is public.

Because this is what it’s actually about…

DeCarlos Brown Jr., a dangerous career criminal, should have been behind bars years ago, but my opponent Roy Cooper's lenient 2020 executive order kept him on the streets, endangering communities. In June 2020, Cooper signed a soft-on-crime executive order, and just three months… pic.twitter.com/WuiYzON4h9

— Michael Whatley (@ChairmanWhatley) September 6, 2025

…and definitely not the fact that it would have been very unlikely she would have been very unlikely to still be living and working in the US legally had she not been savagely murdered. Her temporary protected status would have expired next year and, given the fact that Trump’s been trying to revoke TPS for Ukrainian refugees, it’s a virtual certainty he’s not going to be extending it.