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The Daily Mail has now published chilling details from inside the Mecklenburg County jail. The killer, Decarlos Brown, didn’t just stab 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska… he stalked her from behind as she sat scrolling her phone, then lunged with a knife.
The video shows her collapsing, passengers fleeing, and Brown walking away holding the bloody weapon.
Brown later admitted in a call recorded by his sister: “I hurt my hand, stabbing her. I don’t even know the lady. I never said not one word to the lady at all. That’s scary, ain’t it. Why would somebody stab somebody for no reason?”
He babbled about “foreign materials” planted in his brain and claimed she was “reading his mind.” His sister Tracey told the Daily Mail she “strongly feels he should not have been on the streets at all” and directly blamed the state of North Carolina for releasing him time after time.
And who exactly put him back on the streets? The Daily Mail reports that Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes was presented with Brown’s case on January 21. She knew he was delusional, dangerous, and calling 911 with paranoid rants about microchips in his brain. Yet she gave him cashless bail—just a “written promise” to return to court. No treatment. No confinement. No protection for the public.
This wasn’t his first chance. He had served time for armed robbery. He assaulted his own sister. He was arrested again and again, each time a walking red flag. But Democrat-run Charlotte, and judges like Teresa Stokes, decided that putting him back in circulation was worth the risk. And now an innocent woman is dead.
The Daily Mail lays it bare: “He was seeking help. He called 911 multiple times. Instead of talking to him they thought charging him was going to help.” But the judge’s answer was to turn him loose. That decision sealed Iryna’s fate.
And let’s be clear: had this been reversed—had a White man stabbed a minority refugee—the media would be running wall-to-wall coverage. Instead, there are no hashtags, no vigils on cable news, no politicians pounding podiums. Just silence.
Meanwhile, Iryna’s family mourns. They fled Ukraine in 2022 seeking peace. They described her as “a gifted and passionate artist” with a “deep love for animals.” She had graduated college in Kyiv, was working at a pizza shop, and had just posted Charlotte’s skyline to Facebook nine days before her death, celebrating her new beginning. She dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant. She never got the chance.
The Daily Mail quotes her family: “She had only recently arrived in the US ‘seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning’ before the random slaughter.”
That “random slaughter” was anything but random. It was the predictable, preventable consequence of soft judges like Teresa Stokes and weak leaders who put criminals ahead of victims.
This must be said plainly: Judge Teresa Stokes bears responsibility for letting Decarlos Brown walk free. She had the power to stop him. She had the evidence. And she looked away.
Iryna was safer on the streets of war-torn Ukraine than on a Charlotte light rail under Democrat leadership. That should shake every American to the core.
Obviously this killer is setting himself up for an insanity defense. He deserves the penalty immediately.
Say her name. Iryna Zarutska.
Never forget who failed her: a system more interested in releasing criminals than protecting the innocent."from Ken Blackwell's FB page
