CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man accused of fatally stabbing a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee aboard a Charlotte light rail train now faces a federal charge that could carry the death penalty.

Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged Tuesday with committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.

He had already been charged locally with first-degree murder in the Aug. 22 killing of Iryna Zarutska, who had fled war-torn Ukraine in search of safety and opportunity in the U.S.

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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.

Surveillance video shows Zarutska entering the Lynx Blue Line train and sitting in fro

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