WARNING: The video is edited to avoid showing the actual stabbing.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) -- The Charlotte Area Transit System, CATS, has released video of a deadly stabbing two weeks ago on the light rail.

Because the video is so disturbing and violent, Nexstar's WJZY is not showing it in its entirety, but rather parts of it.

The video shows the suspect, DeCarlos Brown, already on the light rail when the victim, Iryna Zarutska, gets on and sits in front of him on Aug. 22, right around 10 p.m.

Brown sits for about four and a half minutes and seems to be fidgety off and on during that time. He doesn’t seem to look in Zarutska’s direction at all and doesn’t even seem to notice she’s there until suddenly, he pulls out a knife.

The suspect appears to quickly stab Zarutska three times and

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