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‘She loved America’: Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed on train will be buried in US, family says
WWNY ^ | 9/9/2025 | Gray News staff

Posted on 09/10/2025 6:22:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

More personal details are being shared about the woman who was stabbed to death in an apparently random attack on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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While living in the Charlotte area, Ferguson said the college graduate worked at a pizza restaurant, took care of animals, helped at a senior citizen center and rode that same train often.

“The first day she was allowed to work, she got a work permit here, she got a job the very first day,” Ferguson described.

According to Barnacle, the Ukrainian embassy offered to help bring Zarutska’s body back to the European country, but her mother and uncle said she will remain in the U.S.

“She loved America. We’re going to bury her here,” the family told Barnacle

(Excerpt) Read more at wwnytv.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: americanviolence; catchandrelease; charlotte; decarlosbrownjr; irynazarutska; liberaljudges; mentalillness; northcarolina; ukraine
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1 posted on 09/10/2025 6:22:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

2 posted on 09/10/2025 6:28:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The contrast between the victim and the killer could not be more stark.

She represented the best vision of America - a place where people could come legally in hopes of a better life. Giving credit for the best intentions of those who favored our support of Ukraine, it was to allow Ukrainians like her to have that kind of life without leaving their homeland.

The evil criminal psychopath who ended that life for no reason is representative of all the bad ideas liberals have forced into our society. Everything from cashless bail to allowing the “unhoused” to make public areas unsafe to acceptance of all manner if perversity as normal - this thug is who the left fights for - never their victims. They also have opposed capital punishment, which is exactly what this murderer deserves.


3 posted on 09/10/2025 6:31:12 AM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: marcusmaximus

Not sure if this is common knowledge, but she was a BLM supporter.


4 posted on 09/10/2025 6:32:57 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: stevio

She obviously isn’t a BLM supporter anymore


5 posted on 09/10/2025 6:38:56 AM PDT by albie
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To: marcusmaximus

Condolences to family and friends of Iryna Zarutska.


6 posted on 09/10/2025 6:42:27 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: stevio

We saw the BLM poster in her room in the photo yesterday. Me, I just have to note the bitter irony and leave it at that. Poor girl


7 posted on 09/10/2025 6:43:05 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: stevio

What the hell possible relevance could that have that you felt compelled to post that?


8 posted on 09/10/2025 6:43:55 AM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: stevio

I saw a comment somewhere addressing this and they said it was based on a picture that someone took of a random room showing BLM posters on her walls but no evidence it was her actual room. I’m just repeating a comment so I don’t know beyond that. Thought I would throw that out there.


9 posted on 09/10/2025 6:45:53 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: bigbob

She died because of imaginary grievances he thought he had. Here is hoping the state executes his sorry ass.


10 posted on 09/10/2025 6:47:52 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: marcusmaximus
That Zelensky sure is a little mean prick for not allowing them to attend the funeral, isn't he? I wonder how many seconds it would have taken to raise transportation money on GoFundMe if money was a problem to get here.

“She was sweet, the whole neighborhood loved her. She did a lot of pet sitting for neighbors, she was a good, sweet person,” said the neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, adding that her father couldn’t attend the funeral because he’s eligible to be drafted into the war against Russia.

NY Post

11 posted on 09/10/2025 6:50:59 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus

I don’t know where this case is going, but Iryna’s brutal murder carries with it such an extreme high level of karma that it will forevermore seal the fate of the Democratic Party nothing more than an evil corrupt enterprise. I believe I heard this correctly this morning that the ‘judge’ in the last killer’s court case was not even a lawyer.


12 posted on 09/10/2025 6:52:21 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: bigbob

Perfectly said. Thank you.


13 posted on 09/10/2025 6:52:48 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: CommieCutter

Yes, could be very true.


14 posted on 09/10/2025 6:54:57 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: Karl Spooner

“””That Zelensky sure is a little mean prick”””

I think President Trump needs to contact Mini Z and set him straight.


15 posted on 09/10/2025 6:58:26 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: CommieCutter
I saw a comment somewhere addressing this and they said it was based on a picture that someone took of a random room showing BLM posters on her walls but no evidence it was her actual room. I’m just repeating a comment so I don’t know beyond that. Thought I would throw that out there.

Even if those allegations are true, she was young and impressionable and the woke scumbags vigorously push that garbage. That poor girl’s blood is on the “woke movement’s” hands as much as it is on Decarlos’s.

God rest Iryna’s soul and comfort her loved ones.

16 posted on 09/10/2025 7:02:29 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: marcusmaximus

I hate Democrats, all of them. The Democrats who aren’t human garbage are complicit. I’m very pessimistic about the future of our country. Dems have very rich backers, and ongoing indoctrination factories, (schools), churning out masses of dangerous idiots.


17 posted on 09/10/2025 7:09:40 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Rurudyne
She died because of imaginary grievances he thought he had racist DEI affirmative action pigs on the bench who didn't care that he was a career criminal mongrel. All they care about is the color of his skin and he gets a pass in perpetuity.
18 posted on 09/10/2025 7:16:27 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: stevio

You know this, how?


19 posted on 09/10/2025 7:16:37 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: bigbob
Cashless bail wouldn't be an issue if the defendant was given a speedy trial as per the 6th Amendment to the Constitution.

Between the video evidence and his own admission caught in the audio, this perp should have been tried and executed before sundown.

20 posted on 09/10/2025 7:19:06 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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