‘This Man Was Hurting,’ Says Van Jones About Man Who Killed Woman in Cold Blood

‘This Man Was Hurting,’ Says CNN’s Van Jones About Killer Who Stabbed Ukrainian Refugee to Death

Charlie Nash Sep 9th, 2025, 10:40 pm

CNN political commentator Van Jones attempted to explain the brutal killing of a Ukrainian refugee in cold blood this week, remarking that the killer “was hurting” and that “hurt people hurt people.”

Reacting on to the killing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska – who was stabbed to death on a North Carolina light rail last month by Decarlos Brown Jr. , a Black man with a lengthy criminal history – Jones said that while “what happened to that young woman was horrible and it’s everybody’s nightmare,” we “don’t know why that man did what he did.”

“And for Charlie Kirk to say, ‘We know he did it because she’s white,’ when there’s no