Posted on 06/09/2026 1:43:08 PM PDT by Morgana
DeCarlos Brown Jr, the man who was charged with stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on the Charlotte light rail, has been found incompetent to stand trial, according to federal prosecutors.
Brown, 34, appeared in federal court on Tuesday morning, where federal Judge Kenneth Bell found ruled that Brown did not understand the proceedings, and could not stand trial. During the hearing, Brown shouted about having "material in his body" and said that he was having a "body emergency" during the brief hearing at the courthouse, per Queens City News.
The judge, as the ruling came down, said, “[I] hope that what happens here will be accurately recorded by professional press and social media." Brown was evaluated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago through the Bureau of Prison.
After shouting during the hearing, he was escorted out of the room. He shouted more at the judge and asked if the judge had gotten a letter from his mother. The killer will now get medication as well as treatment in an effort to restore his competency for up to four months.
If Brown is not found to be competent at that point, he may be held in federal custody under federal commitment laws. Another hearing may determine is he has to be forcibly medicated. The prosecutors in the case did not present any evidence in the 15-minutes hearing on Tuesday.
“The court found that his prognosis is ‘good’ to be made competent and set a four-month deadline to have that process go forward,” US Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson said. “The court ordered that he seek treatment and medication."
The brutal stabbing was recorded on video, and after the killing, Brown was heard on video muttering to himself, "I got that white girl, I got that white girl." He had been sitting behind Zarutska when without warning, took out a knife and started stabbing her in the neck repeatedly.
As Brown wandered through the train after the stabbing, nobody ran to the girl's aid. "Blood visibly drips on the floor as the defendant walks away from the victim. The victim goes unresponsive shortly after the attack. The defendant is the assailant on the video. There appears to be no interaction between the victim and defendant," the police report reviewing the footage stated.
KILL HIM!! ASAP!!
But he wasn’t incompetent when he was released from prison and allowed to roam around the streets, buildings and transportation lines in Charlotte?
My heart hurts for her family - prayers
Better yet, put him on trial and be found guilty of murder by reason of insanity and sentence him to life in an insane asylum with zero chance of release. Oh, wait that would never happen. What was I thinking?
They'll claim he isn't a danger to himself or others, and release him back onto the streets, like they've done with him and many others for years.
Now that’s a reason to riot. Considering “they” may riot over the karmelo trial.
Good question.
Though Florence, CO, Supermax is not a mental health facility, I would think that he could stay underground in one of their cells.
This is a Federal case after all.
Let him buy all the neckties he wants from the prison commisary.
“”Brown was evaluated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago through the Bureau of Prison.””
Why Chicago when the murder was in NC?
Why was this in federal court?
Not clear that he will be kept in custody UNTIL??????
Iryna Zarutska wasn’t crazy, but she’s very murdered.
Probably be released to vote Democrats in general election.
They should have NEVER closed the mental hospitals in the 1970s. When closed, killings by crazies took off like a rocket.
Incompetent to stand trial? Yet, competent enough to stalk the streets of America, and capable of knowing and saying, “I got the white woman”
Yeah...with a 9mm Hollow point to the base of his skull. That video of Iryna's death still haunts me.
Nah... The white Man and Woman will just smile at that next Ad that shows the white woman smiling at the Black man, as they rush to buy the product thats being advertised, and feel good about that next TV show that portrays Black man is the most noble for the White woman...
White guys idolize Black men because “they’re cool” and white women lust over the black man because television told them its okay...
Been goin on since the 80’s and its embedded itself not going on 3 generations...
Too many whiteys have went black for there to be any significant return to normal... never going to happen...
not-now**
This is probably correct...and he wasn’t “competent” to be in free society long before the murder took place as is clear from the record. He needed long term if not permanent institutionalization.
Now, these judges who allowed this need to be deemed incompetent to remain on the bench.
Where is Ol’ Sparky when you need him?
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