BREAKING: Mentally Ill Homeless Repeat Offender DeCarlos Brown Jr. Ruled ‘Incompetent to Stand Trial’ for Brutal Stabbing of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska
DeCarlos Brown Jr., a 35-year-old homeless man with a long criminal history, has been ruled incompetent to proceed on state murder charges in the random stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line light rail last August. Brown faces both state first-degree murder charges and federal charges for the August 22 attack. On Tuesday, his state public defender filed a motion