A man who authorities say stabbed a Ukrainian refugee to death on a commuter train in North Carolina last month has now been charged with a federal crime and could face the death penalty, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, is accused of pulling a knife and attacking 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail system in an apparent random attack just before 10 p.m. on Aug. 22.

Brown is charged with one count of committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

Video of the attack was released Friday by the Charlotte Area Transit System. It shows the victim entering the light rail car and sitting down in the row in front of Brown.

About four minutes later, Brown pulled a knife from his pocket and stabb

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